The Climate of the North Coast 
of Gales. 
BY ALFRED 0. WALKER, F.L.S. 
Read October 28th, 1891. 
T is exactly twenty years and four days since this Society met 
I to consider its organization and the objects and aim of its 
existence. On that occasion I had the honour of laying my 
views before it, and the plan I sketched out then, and which 
was accepted at that Meeting, has, with the modifications 
necessary to meet the development of the Society, been that 
upon which it has been carried on ever since. ‘lhe Society’s 
District has been extended from the six sections of the 1-inch 
Ordnance Map, of which Chester is nearly the centre, to the 
entire Counties of Flint and Denbigh (and to the rest of North 
Wales for exhibitive purposes), and as much of Cheshire as lies 
west of a line drawn southward from Warrington. ‘The three 
Sections into which the Society was originally divided have also 
been largely added to as it became more comprehensive in its 
aims. On that occasion I also ventured to suggest that the 
principal object which the Chester Society of Natural Science 
should have before it should be the investigation of the natural 
history of its own District, and the correlation of its Fauna and 
Flora with its climate and soil. So far as the former of these 
two objects is coucerned, much has been done. The Grosvenor 
Museum, under the energetic management of Mr. Newsreap, 
promises soon to be a model of what a Local Museum should 
be; and the Kingsley Memorial Prizes have been invaluable in 
increasing the number of local specimens in the Museum. It is, 
however, needless to say that much yet remains to be done. In 
the great world of insects there is a fairly representative 
collection of the Macrolepidopiera, but the ‘‘ Micros’’ are so far 
scarcely touched. Again, in the Coleoptera, I question if we 
have one-tenth of the British species; and the Hymenoptera, 
with the exception of the Aculeates, of which Mr. NEwsTEap 
has formed a very respectable collection, are so far wretchedly 
represented. The same may be said of the Dzpéera, in spite of 
the excellent collection of these and other insects for which the 
Misses ‘omuin so deservedly received the Kingsley Prize 
in 1889. And so I might go on throughout the Animal 
Kingdom. In no single department, except perhaps shells, can 
we be said to have anything like a complete collection of local 
forms. And this is the more regrettable because until our 
lists are tolerably complete it is impossible to carry out satis- 
factorily the second of the above-mentioned objects, viz.: the 
correlation of the Fauna and Flora with the Climate and Soil. 
