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Jays. They are utterly destructive of the nests of all birds which do not 
build in holes, and the condition of the Forest being very favourable to 
them, they are multiplying exceedingly. The Conservators do not allow 
keepers to use guns,—quite rightly, I think,—and although they have 
permitted traps for the purpose of catching the jays, I do not think the 
keepers are much up to this kind of work. I think it would not be 
amiss if the Club would make a suggestion on the subject. I would 
gladly have attended the meeting on Saturday if I were at home, but I 
shall be elsewhere.” 
Mr. W. Saville Kent, F.L.S., F.R.M.S. (author of the ‘Manual of the 
Infusoria,’ and late Naturalist to the Brighton Aquarium), wrote:— 
“ Although I cannot be present with you in person to-morrow afternoon, 
I most thoroughly sympathize with the object of your meeting ; and most 
sincerely trust that your meritorious efforts to abate the present wholesale 
extermination of our indigenous animals and plants, and destruction of 
notable habitats, will meet with the success they so richly deserve. The 
reward which has attended your exertions on behalf of Epping Forest 
must, I am sure, prove an incentive to further efforts; and I greatly 
deplore that such a Society as ours was not in existence to interpose its 
aegis in the defence of Hampstead Heath, and half-a-dozen other 
localities I might name, once the ‘happy hunting grounds’ of the 
zoologist, botanist, and microscopist, but now converted by deep drainage 
and other barbarous ‘improvements’ to barren wastes.” 
Letters of sympathy and regret at enforced absence were also read from 
Mr. D. J. Morgan (the newly appointed Verderer in the place of the late 
Sir Antonio Brady), Mr. E. G. Varenne (of Kelvedon), Mr. Henry 
Laver, F.L.S. (Hon. Secretary to the Colchester Natural History Society), 
and others. 
After some further discussion, 
Dr. Cooke offered to write out his views, and the reasons for those 
views, to be laid before the Conservators. Before doing so, he would 
bring the subject before the two societies with which he was connected, 
which were principally interested in microscopical life, and would ask 
each of them to forward a resolution to the Essex Field Club ; and then 
fall back upon those two societies, and ask them to supplement it by 
memorials of their own. He thought there was no doubt that from both 
of those societies he should be able to get strong protests against the 
destruction of the natural conditions of life in the Forest and elsewhere. 
It was agreed that a memorial should be drawn up in accordance with 
the views expressed at the meeting, and that, when printed, copies should 
be sent to the Conservators, to landowners, to game-preservers, and to the 
Press. With this understanding the discussion terminated. 
[In accordance with the above resolution, the three following memorials 
have been prepared by members of the Club specially acquainted with the 
matters in question. Dr. Cooke speaks as a student of minute life, and 
