1 NTRODUCTORY ReA\ARKS. 



A LTHOUGH it is three years since the Cleveland Field 

 Club last printed its Proceedings, its members have 

 continued to observe natural facts, and to record them 

 in their note books. In the pages which follow will be 

 found some evidence of this work, but there is more to come. 

 The Botanical Section of the Clul), in particular, has a list of 

 Cleveland Plants in preparation, which it is hoped to print 

 next year. Those who are compiling this list will be much 

 pleased to receive help in the meanwhile from any persons 

 interested in Botany, and, if any such persons have records of 

 any of the rarer plants occurring within the area of the 

 Cleveland District, we hope that they will ciimmunicate them 

 to the Secretary of the Section. Any well-authenticated lists 

 of Cleveland ./?or(7. will be very welcome. The Secretaries of 

 the other Sections will also be very glad to have lists of 

 species, or finds of special interest, communicated to them. I 

 shall lie particularly glad to receive records of shells occurring 

 on the Cleveland coast other than those noted in the list 

 printed herewith, and I shall be still more pleased to receive 

 specimens of the rarer shells for identification. We ought to 

 be able to add a good many species during the present year, 

 esi^ecially of the more minute molluscs. Any notes of interest 

 on the habits, etc., of the vinllusca on our coast will be most 

 acceptable, and will find a jilace in our next issue of Proceed- 

 ings. There is a prospect that in the course of a few years 

 the bound volume of our Proceedings will form a most useful 

 compendium of the Natural History of Cleveland. 



JOHN HAAYELL. 



