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away, amongst them are the Revs. John Freeman of Ash- 
wicken, William Blyth of Fincham, G. R. Leathes, R. Forby, 
H. Tilney, R. B. Francis and J. Alderson, Mr. Skrimshire, 
Mr. W. L. Notcutt of Fakenham, D. C. Burlingham and 
Dr. John Lowe of Lynn, Rev. George M unford, and others. 
It is not my purpose to speak of the Norfolk botanists 
happily still living in our midst, but that the active prosecution 
of the study both of Phanerogamic and Cryptogamic plants 
is not neglected a reference to the valuable contributions 
to the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society will abundantly prove, and I trust that such may long 
continue to be the case. 
IX. 
NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 
THETFORD DISTRICT. 
By W. G. Clarke. 
Read 27 th January, 1907. 
The ten years which have elapsed since I communicated to 
the Society a “ List of the Vertebrate Animals found in the 
spent away from the district, and my notes are consequently 
Neighbourhood of Thetford ” (vol. vi. pp. 300-327) have been 
of such occurrences as have been communicated to me by 
friends, among whom I would particularly mention the Rev. 
R. B. Caton of Fakenham Magna, and Mr. F. Rix of Thetford, 
or observed by myself during occasional visits to the borough 
on the Little Ouse. 
To the local names in my previous list may be added 
“Bog-mouse” for the Common Field Vole; “ Guler ” a 
