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My suggestions to meet these points fall under three 



headings. 



A Resume of our local Fauna. 



Firstly I should like to see a printed account of our present 

 knowledge of the zoology of Northumberland and Durham, 

 from the lowest forms upwards, with notes and comments upon 

 the groups, both large and small, of which so little is now 

 known that they might particularly repay study. An ideal 

 model of such a resume would be found in Mr. Evans's 

 Presidential Address to the Royal Physical Society upon the 

 Fauna of the Forth area. Thus anyone with a leaning to- 

 wards zoology and anxious to do original work would see at 

 a glance what had been done, and yet more important, what 

 remained to be done, and his time need not then be taken up 

 by laboriously going over old ground. 



A Card Index of the Fauna and Flora. 

 Secondly the formation of strong sectional committees aided 

 by leading naturalists, whose business would be to collate all 

 records to date in each of the sections on to cards ; a system 

 eminently adapted for this work was explained by Mr. Bellamy 

 to the Conference of Delegates at the Dublin Meeting of the 

 British Association in 1908. This piece of work will not be so 

 formidable as it appears on the surface. Contributions dealing 

 with the Lepidoptera, Diptera, Crustacea, spiders and other 

 groups have been published in recent years; lists of Coleoptera, 

 Myriapoda, Thysanoptera, etc., are under preparation; whilst 

 in many groups we should start from practically virgin ground. 

 And once the horse work has been achieved it would be a very 

 simple matter to keep the cards up-to-date. Cuttings, draw- 

 ings, photographs, charts, etc., can be filed in addition to 

 notes if the largest cards be adopted. Once completed, the 

 museum would have a Card Catalogue of our Fauna and Flora 

 open to all naturalists. 



A Quarterly Magazine. 

 Thirdly — and here my views may be regarded as ambitious — 

 a quarterly magazine, which, run on right lines, would have a 

 larger circulation than the Transactions and Proceedings of 



