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OF WITH
SUFFOLK NATURALISTS 1400-1900, AN ALPHABETIC
INDEX.
COMPILED BY THE HON. SECRETARY. " Suffolk's F a u n a & Flora have been worked o u t by a long succfission of e m i n e n t resident N a t u r a l i s t s . " — N o t t i n g h a m Guardian, 21 F e b r u a r y , 1935, (Proc S N S . xxv). TILL all wells of Information are drawn dry, any such List as the present can be regarded as merely preparatory : it represents no more than is recoverable from my own small library, defective in every branch but Entomology. Any literary Ornithologist can add many names, doubtless. However, it is thought advisable to issue a basic catalogue, upon which to gradually build additional details, as they become known. Perfection is, quite obviously in the circumstances, impossible. Throughout medieval times men (though certainly not the pettifoggingJoscelindeBrakelondor John Lydgate !) mused upon Nature, which affected them far more personally than it appeals to us in well sheltered dwellings : what we regard as an abstract, but necessarily fundamental, study was to them a very real menace and tempests often enter into the old Chronicles. While printing was unknown, and later but rare, they lacked means of more than local expression. General accounts of Hunting, Hawking and Swan-upping, wherein the top mandible only bore the owner's arms or initials (Ticeh. 262), alone survive.—A Naturalist is one versed in the study of Nature. Every boy who chases Butterflies and every fool who shoots a Bird, are not necessarily Naturalists ; the former is moved by inherent love of the chase and the latter by the Englishman's lust to " go out and kill something," too often solely for the pot. Also the men who sit comfortably in London, and merely record things sent from Suffolk, are exclüded. But he who can specify a Jack Snipe or Black Woodpecker at fifty yards, a malarial Mosquito or Colorado Beetle at six inches, really is a Naturalist. Such are the six hundred enumerated below, who collected here.
To economise space, I have used the following contractions :— Ann. Mag. NH. : Annais & Magazine of Nat. Hist. 1841 et seqq. ; Bab. : Babington's 1884-6 Birds of Suffolk ; B. Guide : Botanists' Guide 1805 ; Bl.Lep.Suff. : E. N. Bloomfield's 1890 Lepidoptera of Suffolk, Additions 1900; Breck. : Clarke's 1925 Breckland Wilds ; Col. S u f f . : The Beetles of Suffolk by Claude Morley, 1899, Suppl. .1910 ; Cullum : Sir Johrf Cullum's 1784 History