188 A Cumberland Nature Reserve. 
of its work. in future years if sufficient financial support is 
obtained: © 
Turning to what was primarily the object of the Association, 
the promotion and provision of Nature Reserves in Cumber- 
land, local Secretaries, Miss Newling and Mr. Ritson, have beem, 
appointed in two districts, viz., Keswick and Wigton, in the 
hope that suitable tracts of country will eventually be set apart 
and properly administered by a local Committee. 
Kingmoor Nature Reserve is the only fully constituted and 
affiliated Reserve yet in the county, and in spite of many 
difficulties encountered by the Reserve Committee, and the 
despoliation of the land as a primitive tract which had been 
going on for years, it,is a great success. 
A grant of £25 from the funds was made for Ig14, and from, 
that the Committee have done much good and _ necessary. 
work, and, provided a regular keeper from April to September. 
A bungalow was erected for the use of the keeper and wardens, 
the building being the gift of Mr. F. W. Halton, while timber for 
repairs and additions was given by Mr. A. Anderson. Major 
Spencer Ferguson (Mayor of Carlisle), Mr. D. Losh Thorpe, and 
the Hon. Secretary spent much time in arranging and providing 
these necessaries, which included a suitable drinking pond for 
birds. 
Three gentlemen were appointed to compile lists of the 
Flora and “Fauna of the Reserve with a view to compare t 
with past records and also with future developments, viz. 
Mr. F. H. Day for Insects ; Mr. T. Scott Johnstone, for Flowering 
plants and general botany; and Mr. Jas. Murray, for the 
Mosses and Liverworts. 
Mr. Day records 15 species of Butterflies, 122 species of 
Moths and 257 species of Beetles. Three of the beetles are new 
to Cumberland, viz., Apion genista, Helophorus quadrisignatus, 
and Psylliodes affints. 
Mr. Johnstone reports the identification of 120 plants 
growing on the common and in the wood. Some of these are 
quite rare and have been previously recorded, among them being 
the Whorl-leaved Meadow-Parsnip, Carum verticillatum, re- 
corded by T. C. Heysham in 1837. It appears to be increasing, 
but on the other hand at least 10 of the previously. recorded 
species have not been seen during the past year. Twelve 
hundred species of flowering plants have been recorded for the 
whole of Cumberland, so that Kingmoor Nature Reserve, with 
an area of less than 50 acres, can show exactly 10 per cent. of 
the Flora of the county. The list will doubtless be. con- 
siderably increased in future years. 
Mr. J. Murray reports that the locality is not a good.one 
for either mosses or liverworts, and that some of those noted 
were abnormally stunted and ill-developed. This year he 
Naturalist, 
