MR. T. SOUTHWELL, ON THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT. 207 
person whose veracity one would doubt without good reason. He 
was a wealthy merchant and mariner, and, at the time when 
Purchas wrote, ho held a prominent position in connection with 
the Trinity House, of which, at a later date, he became Master. 
1 le seems to have resided at Leigh, in Essex, where he was probably 
well known to Purchas, who from 1G04 to 1G14 was vicar of the 
adjacent parish of Eastwood, a position which enabled him to 
make the acquaintance of the many ships’ -captains who then 
inhabited the little sea-port town, and which undoubtedly led in 
the end to his becoming such a well-known geographical historian. 
There is in Leigh Church a fine monument in commemoration of 
this liobert Salmon (who died 18th dune, 1641), as well as brasses 
to some earlier members of his family. 
I can therefore see no reason why we should not accept as 
genuine and veracious the record to which I have called attention. 
XII. 
THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACTS OF 
1880 AND 1894, 
AS APPLIED TO THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK. 
It will be remembered that in the summer of 1893 when a Bill 
sent up from the Commons was awaiting its second reading in the 
House of Lords, the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society 
took an active part in advocating the principle of protection by 
specified areas rather than by named species, and that a resolution 
embodying these views was sent to the Earl of Kimberley, then 
Lord President of the Council and one of our Vice-Presidents, 
asking him to use his influence to secure their reception, which he 
most kindly did. It was probably owing to this action that the 
Bill as finally passed rendered it optional either to prohibit the 
taking the eggs of any wild birds in specified areas, or to prohibit 
the taking of the eggs of certain named species, thus embodying 
both principles. 
