420 CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES. 



As a matter of fact the pioneer work in this matter — so far as the 

 British Isles are concerned — has been carried out by single observers or 

 by pairs, and it may be useful to remind you of some of these : — 



1900. — K. Smith, then of University College, Dundee, published 

 vegetation maps on a scale of 2 miles to 1 inch for — 

 I. The Edinburgh district ; and 



II. North Perthshire. 1 

 Continued in 1904 by — 



III. Forfar ; and 



IV. Fife. 



1903— Mr. C. E. Moss, of Leeds University, with Mr. W. M. Rankine, 

 dealt similarly with — 



I. Leeds and Halifax ; and 

 II. Harrogate and Skipton. 2 



Mr. Moss also wrote a separate paper on The Peat Moors of the 



Pennines ; 3 and in 1913 he published ' The Vegetation of the 



Peak District.' 4 



1906. — Marcel Hardy carried out a general Botanical Survey of the 



Highlands of Scotland, recorded on maps on the scale of 2 miles to 1 inch, 



copies of which are deposited for reference in ' Outlook Tower,' Edinburgh. 



His account of this survey was published in the Scottish Geographical 



Magazine. 



1911. — Sir Daniel Hall and Sir John Russell published their survey 

 of Kent, Surrey and Sussex. 



All these publications are replete with interest, and there are now not 

 a few more which deal with other sections of the country. Each of those 

 which I have seen is the work of one or two observers. Most of these 

 observers have been in a position to devote continuous attention to it. 

 I see, however, no reason why a group of men who concert as to method 

 and record should not carry out such work in successive shorter or longer 

 periods of ' spare-time study.' 



To judge by publications, ' vegetation ' mapping has made but little 

 progress since the war. The Ecological Society has published inauy 

 valuable papers, so that, all in all, there is no lack of well-informed 

 guidance available for any local society setting itself to explore the matter 

 with definite relation to its own area. Geologist and entomologist 

 members might take part in the preparation of a particular local study ; 

 each would find fresh interests in relating their own particular observations 

 to those of their botanical confreres. A study of this kind might concern 

 quite a small area — even but a single field or wood ; it might deal with 

 conditions at different seasons of the year, and if so the meteorological 

 conditions of the year and of the season should be noted ; these affect 

 many aspects of the area — not least the life and influence of insects, 

 helpful or harmful. 



1 Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. xvi, 1900 ; xx, 1904 ; xxi, 1905. 



2 Geographical Journal, vols. xxi. and xxii., 1903. 

 8 Geographical Journal, 1904, vol. xxi v. 



4 Cambridge University Press. 



6 Scottish Geographical Magazine, 19015, vol. xxii. 



