THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
129.] SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1859 [Price Id. 
THE FENS. 
A correspondent lately enquired, “Will 
no one try to see what the marshes 
will produce in the way of new Micro- 
Lepidoptera ?” 
We called attention last year to the 
great extent of undrained marsh land 
bordering the rivers in Norfolk, but yet 
we fear that our appeal has not been 
sufficiently attended to. It is true, 
when we announced a “ Large Copper” 
as having occurred, agents were at once 
despatched from one or two London 
dealers to secure a few gross, but these 
are not the style of entomologists that 
the fen proprietors like to see on their 
lands, and hence it was that we had to 
insert a notice “ that most of the fens 
in the neighbourhood of Ranworlh are 
carefully preserved, and that no stranger 
is allowed to trespass there without an 
order from Mr. Kerrison.” 
Mr. Kerrison, we learn, gave our 
Ranworth correspondent, Mr. Winter, 
permission to ask any persons he pleased 
I to the fens, but did not give a free 
jpass to all coming there without asking 
Heave, some of whom were abusive when 
spoken to, and did mischief wantonly 
or carelessly. 
Any experienced collector who could 
spare a few weeks in the season to 
visit the Norfolk fen districts would 
no doubt be amply repaid. It is true 
Mr. Winter is no longer located at 
Ranworth, being now posted on the 
banks of the Waveney, at Aldeby, near 
Beccles ; bn,t here also there is much 
undrained fen land, though .scarcely so 
promising in appearance as that at 
Ranworth. 
We beg to inform our readers that 
we have made very particular enquiries 
as to the probability of any one going 
down from London, expressly with the 
view of exploring these fens scienti- 
fically, being disturbed of molested, 
and we are assured by Mr. Winter, 
who showed our letter to one of the 
largest proprietors near Aldeby, that 
if any collector visits Aldeby or Ran- 
worth, introduced hy Mr. Winter, he 
will not be sent away without going 
on the marshes, and will not be mo- 
lested; but if they go there without 
any introduction their errand is likely 
to be fruitless. 
Mr. Winter observes that there seems 
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