| Editorial | | 1 |
| Poem: Once upon a time | Rasik Bhadresa | 2 |
| Useless information about White Bryony | Geoff Heathcote | 4 |
| Remainder of SNS meetings programme 2008 | Juliet Hawkins | 6 |
| Snippets | | 7 |
| Please report beetles caught in MV traps | David Nash | 8 |
| Harold Spencer and fossil wood from the Orwell shore | Adrian Chalkey | 9 |
| Living under siege | Alec Bull | 10 |
| Calling all recorders | Colin Hawes | 11 |
| A herbalist’s view of Thyme | Caroline Wheeler | 12 |
| Snippets | | 12 |
| A hanging slug | Michael Kirby | 13 |
| Swabbing frogs & the Suffolk Amphibians & Reptiles Atlas | John Baker | 14 |
| Records Notebook: Old but new! | Richard Fisk | 19 |
| Records Notebook: Bird's-nest Orchid at Coombs Wood | Peter Payne | 20 |
| Records Notebook: Update on Captain's Wood | Neil Mahler | 21 |
| Temperature and rainfall data for Boxford | Adrian Chalkey | 23 |
| Book review: Crow Country | David Walker | 25 |
| Book review: Explore Wild Essex | Norma Chapman | 25 |
| Stag Beetle research update | Colin Hawes | 26 |
| Snippets | | 29 |
| Letters, Notes and Queries: Jellyfish identified | John Francis | 30 |
| Letters, Notes and Queries: Jellyfish identified, 2 | Simone Bullion | 30 |
| Letters, Notes and Queries: Research in the garden? | Michael Kirby | 30 |
| Letters, Notes and Queries: What killed the dinosaurs | Nick Sibbett | 31 |
| Records please: Nysius huttoni | Nigel Cuming | 32 |
