CONTENTS Volume 21 (New series) 2004 1-3 Report of the Essex Field Club for 2003-2004 4 Income and expenditure account for 2003 5 Balance sheet for 2003 6-8 Essex Field Club Annual Exhibition 6 December 2003 9-11 The 2004 AGM address. Veteran trees in Essex Mark Hanson 12-18 Website forms and recording Peter Harvey 19-26 Raphael Meldola: the Essex Field Club papers at Imperial College Hilary McEwan WILDLIFE REVIEW OF THE YEAR 27-41 Wildlife and conservation review of 2003 Chris Gibson 42-44 New Charophyte (Stonewort) records Ken Adams 45-47 The Essex Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena L., 2003 survey Mark Mey 47-49 Ero aphana (Araneae: Mimetidae), a spider new to Essex Peter Harvey 50-51 Some Coleoptera of conservation interest recorded from north-east Essex (V.C.19) during 2003 Jerry Bowdrey 52-54 Clytiomya continua and other important new Diptera: Tachinidae records Peter Harvey & Del Smith 55-56 Thereva fulva (Diptera: Therevidae), new to Essex Peter Harvey 57-59 Stictopleurus abutilon (Rossi) and S. punctatonervosus (Goeze) (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae), new records mainly from Essex Peter Harvey 60 Odynerus simillimus (Morawitz) in N.E. Essex 2004 David Scott 61-62 Elampus panzeri (Fabricius, 1804) (Chrysididae), Crabro peltarius (Schreber, 1784), Crossocerus palmipes (Linnaeus, 1767), Ectemnius ruficornis (Zetterstedt, 1838) and Nitela lucens Gayubo & Felton, 2000 (Sphecidae), aculeate Hymenoptera new to Essex Peter Harvey 63-68 Review of the Lepidoptera of Essex for the year 2003 Brian Goodey 69-74 Orthoptera and allied insects of Essex 2003 Tim Gardiner CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT 75-78 Investigation into the use of field edges by small mammals on the Writtle College Estate Graham Watkins & Robin Field 79-88 Brown roofs for invertebrates Peter Harvey 89-116 Invertebrate survey at Gunpowder Park, the former Royal Ordnance Site in the Lee Valley Peter Harvey & Tim Hill Essex Wildlife Trust focus 117-120 Enriching our landscape - an Essex success story Andrew May & David Smart 121-125 Observations on the Song Thrush Turdus philomelos Brehm at Shadwell Wood SSSI Ray Tabor 125-130 Desmoulin's Whorl Snail Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy) in Essex Adrian Knowles STATUS, DISTRIBUTION AND IDENTIFICATION 131-141 The waxcap fungi of Essex Tony Boniface 142-149 The floating liverworts of Essex Ken Adams 150-153 Changes in the status and distribution of Oenanthe pimpinelloides Corky-fruited Water-dropwort, in Essex Ken Adams 154 The fungi of Fryerning Churchyard, 2003 update Graham Smith 155-166 A survey of hedgerows in the parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning Graham Smith 167-168 Transect monitoring of Glow-worm Lampyris noctiluca (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) colonies in Essex Tim Gardiner & Michelle Pye 169 Essex Field Club publications 170 Instructions to contributors