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THE NATURALISTS’ JOURNAL. 
containing prices of many educational and other cases of birds, 
injurious insects, orders and transformations of insects, &c., 
&c. A catalogue may be had on application to above address. 
Essex Field Club Excursion. —On Saturday, June 17th, 
the Essex Field Club held a very pleasant excursion. At eleven 
o’clock about thirty members started in carriages from Chelms¬ 
ford railway station, and were driven through Great Eaddow 
and Howe-green, past Great Gibcracks to the hamlet of 
Bicknacre. Places of interest en route were pointed out by 
Messrs. E. A. Fitch, C. Smoothy, F. Chancellor, Walter Crouch, 
E. Durrant, and B. G. Cole (the last-named in the absence of 
his brother, Mr. W. Cole, through ill-health). At Bicknacre 
the carriages were dismissed, and the party walked on to 
Danbury, where an excellent luncheon was well served at the 
Griffin Inn, by Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds. The fine and extensive 
views from Danbury Hill were greatly enjoyed. In the after¬ 
noon the nothern side of Danbury Hill was traversed through 
Bell Hill Wood and across Lingwood-common to Old Riff hams, 
thence through other woods and across Woodham Walter- 
common to Woodham Walter Church. In Bell Hill Wood, 
belonging to Mr. Smoothy, the nest of a nightjar (Cciprimulgus 
eiiropaus ) was discovered, containing two birds, and in another 
place a stoat was captured. From Woodham Walter the walk 
was continued to Maldon, whence the excursionists were able 
to depart by the seven o’clock train. They arrived in the 
ancient borough rather the worse for wear, but not unduly 
fatigued .—Essex County Chronicle. 
The Sussex and Hants Naturalist. —The July number of 
this magazine is enlarged to the extent of a coloured wrapper, 
and contains the first of a series of articles entitled “ Sketches 
of British Wild Flowers,” by H. Durrant, the conclusion of 
Air. Turle’s “Visit to the Blasket Isles,” the “Entomology of 
the Alonth,” by A. H. Waters, B.A., and other items. 
Periodicals, &c., received. —The “ Conchologist,” June 
quarter ; “ Sussex and Hants Naturalist,” July number ; 
“Amateur Naturalist,” July number; and the “Western 
Gazette,” &c. 
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Preserved Larvae.— V. A. Lester, collector and preserver 
has a few species for sale ; list stamp.—89, Norfolk Road, 
Essex Road, London, N. 
