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instance, while, if they went to Birmingham, Sutton Park was preserved 
to the people for ever, but the same work of destruction was going on, 
and it would quickly lose its charms for the naturalist. Dr. Cooke went 
on to point out the directions in which this destruction and this injury 
were being done. We had, he estimated, altogether about 300 species of 
fresh-water Algas. We had in addition about 200 different species of 
Desmids, and many other forms, all of them inhabiting still waters, 
and many of them stagnant waters; a large number of fresh-water 
Diatoms, not forgetting such plants as Drosera, which loved damp, mossy 
spots. Then in animal life we had at least 250 different kinds of Infusoria, 
and Rotifers which must be put down at not less than 150. Altogether 
there were about 1200 species of minute life, of which about 600 were 
vegetable and 600 animal. At a very moderate estimate he should say 
that they were able to find 500 siDecies of minute life within Epping 
Forest. He had been looking over the work published by Dr. Hassell fifty 
years ago, and found that he enumerated about 25 species of fresh-water 
Alga, which he found for the first time, or nearly for the first time, 
in Epping Forest, or within a few miles of Epping. He (Dr. Cooke) was 
able to bring that number up to about 50, and he had only searched for 
them one afternoon, and even then he had not gone beyond Wanstead 
Flats ; so that if he estimated they would find 100 species of fresh-water 
Alga in Epping Forest he was understating the fact. These plants only 
grew where the water was still and stagnant, as in those little pools which 
were so common on Wanstead Flats, and other parts of the Forest. 
But, judging from appearances, the aim and object of the Conservators and 
those in charge of such lands was, by deep drainage, to destroy all these 
pools. [Hear, hear.] Everywhere, at all times and in all places, it 
appeared to be imagined that the Easter Monday Cockney was the person 
to be looked after and petted most carefully, and a dread was felt that 
these tender people would mud their boots if they came in search of 
recreation and found the Forest in its natural condition. [Laughter.] He 
thought that these individuals were not to be consulted in their (supposed) 
peculiar tastes and habits entirely and absolutely. The Conservators 
ought to strive to maintain the vegetable and animal life on the lands 
committed to their charge, and it could be done without any injury to the 
purposes for which the Forest was preserved. He thought it was perfectly 
clear that there was quite room enough round the various public-houses 
for the people who came down there on special days set apart to make a 
John Lubbock’s day. The condition of the outer tract would not interfere 
with them. He had been down to the Forest on holidays, and he had 
never found the irrepressible Cockney beyond some ten minutes’ walk 
from the public-house. [Laughter.] But he found the members of the 
Quekett Club with their bottles, and the entomologists and botanists with 
their nets and vasculums, in the depths of the Forest, never much regard¬ 
ing whether they got mud over their boots or not. His object was to pro¬ 
test against the Forest being served in the way Hampstead Heath had 
