Braunton has been very expertly surveyed by private naturalists during
the last generation ; and incidentally is the subject of the very best local guide to natural history that I have ever come upon. If anyone doubts the except- ional value of the place to naturalists of all sorts, though to the botanist first, let him refer to Braunton : Some Natural History Notes, by Dr. Ellerton Wright, an observer of real genius. There-are reasons into which I need not enter why the present moment is particularly -suitable for an effort to save the Burrows for the purpose of a sanctuary,- for the preservation of its unique Seirpus as for its Merlins and its humming-bird Hawk moths. • We have lost many- plants as well as birds and insects, and ought not to let the rare reed or rush go the way of the great copper butterfly or kite.
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