Excerpt from Contributions to the Flora and Fauna of Repton and Neighbourhood
This volume has been compiled for the guidance of the Students of Natural History in Repton School, in the hope that it may receive many additions and corrections as further researches are carried on.
For the writers it contains a record of pleasant hours, passed amidst scenes known and dear to all old Reptonians. Few Schools in England enjoy such advantages as we possess in the beauty of our neighbourhood and the extent of our range. The very names of Bretby and Foremark, Knoll Hills and Anchor Church, Rept6n Rocks, Twyford Ferry, Tanyard Lane, call up a landscape of rich and varied interest, noble timber and fragrant lanes, broad meadows
"dewy fresh, browsed by deep-uddered kine,"
and woods carpeted with bracken, or glowing with bluebells; and the "smug and silver Trent," always fresh and teeming with life, winding like a bright riband through the wide valley.
To all Repton men these scenes are connected with pleasant recollections, but surely to none so much as those whose enjoyment of liberty and exercise has been enhanced by a love of Nature, rendered distinct and permanent by a definite pursuit. "Happy truly is the Naturalist.
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