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The report of the N.S.S. published in 1873 included lists of 

 mammals, birds, reptiles, batrachians, beetles, butterflies and 

 moths, molluscs, and the flowering plants of the neighbourhood. 

 In the report of 1877 similar lists were published. In 1888 the 

 " Fauna and Flora of Haileybury, Part I," was brought out 

 interleaved and bound in limp cloth. Part II was to have 

 contained lists of beetles and microscopic pond animals, but 

 never appeared. The present edition is got up like the former 

 one. A considerable number of new species have been added 

 to our lists, and a far larger number have been more firmly 

 established. Unfortunately this is not true of the molluscs, as 

 there has been little work done at conchology for some years 

 past. Some new ground is broken, for there is a long list 

 of Rotifers and a very short list of Infusorians. 



I now quote some good advice from the former edition : — 

 ** We hope these lists will promote collecting and, still 

 more, observing. For it cannot be too strongly insisted on, 

 that acquisition is valuable only so far as it assists observation. 

 The interleaving is meant to help in the carrying out of this 

 principle. All observations should be carefully recorded at the 

 time with the date and locality, and, if of sufficient importance, 

 notified to the heads of sections or to the President. The 

 Society's collections should be used in connection with the 

 lists." I add a word to our entomologists, the most energetic 



^J^ of our outdoor naturalists. At present the whole number 



CT^ concentrate their energies on the Lepidoptera, and it would 

 : be much better if some of them extended the range of their 



0"> activities to dragon-flies, say, and bees and wasps. 



Q:^ Thanks are due to Mr. Vaughan and N. R. D. Tennant for 



3 their services in making out this edition. 



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