1 82 The Field Nahiralisfs Quarterly May 



Field Clubs and Societies. 



We have received the Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists' 

 Field Club for the year 1902, and note with pleasure the increased 

 prosperity of this excellent society. Not only is there a distinct gain 

 in membership, but the field meetings have been better attended, and 

 a greater interest has been shown generally in the proceedings of the 

 club. The membership of the club now stands at 247, of which 12 are 

 honorary members. Eleven field meetings were held during the year, 

 as well as the usual five winter evening meetings for lectures. Apart 

 from the meetings the year is important in the annals of the society for 

 the publication of the new Flora of the Liverpool District, to which we 

 referred in our last issue, which is a work of which the editor, Dr Green, 

 may well be proud. The book is enriched by over 800 illustrations of 

 plants by the able botanical referee of the society, Miss E. M. Wood. 

 We are glad to be able to number both Dr Green and Miss Wood 

 amongst the contributors to the F. N. Q. It is not often that the 

 resume of the season's work is a literary composition of such merit as 

 is the case in the Transactions under notice. We trust the club will 

 have an even more successful season in the one now begun. 



The 1 6th annual meeting of the Vale of Derwent Naturalists' Field 

 Club was held at Burnopfield on March 14. Mr J. Abercrombie, presi- 

 dent of the club for the past year, presided over a good attendance of 

 members. In an appropriate address he spoke of the objects of the club, 

 and referred to the study of natural history as being the most interest- 

 ing and elevating that any one could enter upon. He urged the mem- 

 bers during the coming year to continue to show the same interest in 

 the work which had characterised the past year. The field meetings of 

 the past year had been well attended and some useful notes made ; and 

 the winter meetings, according to the secretary's report, were likewise 

 successful. Papers had been read by Mr G. Ord on " Sandstones," on 

 " The Slow Worm " and " The Dragon-Fly " by Mr W. Johnson, and on 

 " Derwentdale " by Rev. W. Featherstonhaugh. The natural-history 

 lectures, which were such a successful feature during the winter of 1901, 

 had to be omitted owing to structural alterations in the meeting-room. 

 It is hoped that they will be renewed next winter. Mr H. F. Bulman, 

 Bancus Close, Burnopfield, was unanimously elected president for the 

 ensuing year, and Mr W. Johnson, Belper Moor, Burnopfield, was again 

 appointed secretary and treasurer. Five field meetings for the summer 

 were decided upon: May 16, Edmundbyers ; June 13, Conbridge-on- 

 Tyne ; July 1 5, Barnard Castle ; August 22, Allensford and the Sneap ; 

 September 19, Monkseaton and Whitley. An illustrated volume of 

 the club's papers is now in the hands of the printers, and will shortly be 

 issued. 



The Hampstead Scientific Society has issued its report for 1902, and 



