The Field Naturalist's 

 Quarterly 



Vol. I. FEBRUARY 1902. No. i. 



Editorial. 



In presenting this our first issue to our readers, it may be 

 well to indicate briefly the object the Editor and his col- 

 leagues have in view. We intend in this journal to deal 

 with all the subjects that are usually the objects of attention 

 and study with members of Field Naturalist Clubs and 

 kindred societies. Many such societies publish their own 

 transactions at intervals, others do not ; in any case, it is 

 felt that a useful purpose may be served by a periodical 

 which will indicate the work that is being done by students 

 in different branches of natural science in various localities. 

 The advanced student in Zoology, Archaeology, Botany, 

 and other special branches of knowledge, has in nearly every 

 instance the choice of a journal devoted exclusively to his 

 particular study, written by eminent specialists in their 

 respective lines. Our own object is a somewhat different 

 one from that served by such publications. Many field 

 naturalists take a real interest in animals, plants, or the 

 various objects of local interest in their neighbourhoods, 

 who at the same time have not the opportunity or the 

 desire to take up one special branch of study. Without 

 wishing to know all that is knowable about anything, they 

 still like to know something about many things. It is for 

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