WANTED THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND 7 



referred to, but a more definite and systematised statement 

 with regard to them and to the organisation and means that 

 may be employed may not be out of place. 



Aims of the Society. To carry out a full survey of the 

 Natural History of Scotland in the widest sense, in so far as 

 not already provided for (e.g. by the Geological and Ordnance 

 Surveys), and to promote all that tends towards that end, 

 especially by co-ordinating and rendering more accessible 

 all information that bears on it. 



Relations to otlier Societies with similar aims and to 

 individual research. Mutually helpful, supplementing and 

 in no way interfering with or superseding each other. 



Work of the Society. (i) To procure and publish guides 

 to all the information contained in published books and 

 journals, such guides to contain lists of the various items 

 classified by subjects, by localities, and by authors, with 

 a brief indication of the contents and where each paper may 

 be found ; (2) To issue for each year a classified index of 

 new papers relating to the natural history of Scotland, 

 whether contained in the publications of the various local 

 societies, of societies outside Scotland, in journals or in books 

 touching on or devoted to any part of the society's field of 

 work ; thus a far wider circulation would be secured from 

 the first for all information of real value ; it would be more 

 widely helpful, and would be less likely to be forgotten after- 

 wards ; (3) To include with this index short statements of 

 published researches elsewhere that throw light on the natural 

 history of Scotland, and that may suggest lines of inquiry that 

 should be followed up in this country, or that suggest or 

 describe new methods of study that might be usefully applied 

 here ; (4) To prepare and issue a reasoned scheme of in- 

 vestigation for the whole of Scotland, indicating what has 

 been or is being accomplished, and what most evidently 

 awaits investigation as regards either districts or subjects, 

 and to secure advice for those seeking it on any matter, 

 especially by the appointment of referees willing to name 

 specimens submitted to them ; (5) To assist in the preparation 

 and issue of monographs on such divisions of the whole 

 scheme as might be judged ready for publication, whether 

 these be large or small parts of the whole ; (6) To assist in 



