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record when complete ; ordnance maps will indicate other general 

 characteristics of districts selected. (5) That momentary local weather 

 conditions only be recorded, the Secretary being responsible for 

 the general regional meteorological conditions. (6) That occasional 

 seasonal notes be inserted in the "Remarks" column referring to 

 state of vegetation, blossom, etc. (7) That, in the case of rare local 

 species, no precise localities will be made public. 



Suggested Form of Eecord. 

 Locality —Vxhvidge, Middlesex. Pe?-tod— January-December, 1920. 



Nmne of Observer.. 



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I shall be obliged, therefore, if lepidopterists willing to assist as 

 observers will kindly communicate with me, so that if sufficient 

 support be forthcoming, a start may be made this year, and at once. 

 I ask particularly the support of local natural history societies and 

 of observers in remoter parts of the country, in Scotland and the 

 Isles, in Ireland and in Wales. Secretaries of societies are also 

 requested to bring the scheme to the notice of meml)ers. — H. 

 Eowland-Brown ; Harrow Weald, Middlesex. 



Monks Wood.— I am sure entomologists will be sorry to hear 

 that the celebrated Monks Wood, Hunts, will soon be a thing of the 

 past, with disastrous results to many a local insect. Lord Cheshara 

 having sold the estate, the woods have been purchased by an 

 American company, who are, I hear, cutting down all the timber, 

 and making a clean sweep of this fine old collecting-ground. Having 

 spent many days (and nights) in this rich locality, one cannot but 

 regret such an end to one of the best known collecting-grounds in 

 the country. — R. Tait ; Eoseneath, Harboro' Road, Ashton-on- 

 Mersey, Cheshire. 



Monks Wood. — In the early days of my teens, when I first 

 began seriously to collect butterflies, I used to study with keen 

 interest the lists of places reputed to be good localities for certain 

 rare species. In course of time the names of those places became to 

 me almost synonyms for the names of the insects in question, and 



