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NEWS or OTHER SOCIETIES. 
Full details can be obtained rroin Mr S. T. Jennyn, 45 Highfield 
Gardens, W estcliff-on-Sea. 
PROPOSED NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SCARUOROUGH 
DISTRICT. 
The Scarborough Field Naturalists’ Society proposes to publish a 
comprehensive Natural History of the Scarborough district. It will 
consist of sections compiled by competent local naturalists, with the 
help of specialists, and will be as up-to-date and thorough as possible. 
The work of getting this publication ready for the press has already 
commenced, and it is hoped to publish it in 1949. The cost of produc- 
ing this work is estimated at £550, and of this the Society guarantees 
£150. Subscribers of a guinea or over will be entitled ^o receive a free 
copy. 
Subscriptions will be received by the Publication Treasurer, Mr J. P. 
Best, 26 Woodland Ravine, Scarborough. 
“ DIRECTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES.” 
It is a pleasure to draw attention to the most useful ” Directory of 
Natural History Societies,” published last year by the Amateur 
Entomologists’ Society, and compiled almost entirely by our member, 
Mr H. K. Airy Shaw. At least one ex-Secretary of a county 
Naturalists’ Field Club has in the past felt the need of a handy book 
which would supply him with paiticulars of neighbouring Field Clubs 
and Natural History vSocieties, in fact of all such societies in Britain. 
County Naturalist Societies know far too little about what their neigh- 
bours are doing, and seem to co-o])erate in their work hardly at all. 
Let us hope that this heliiful little Directory will imjjrove matters in 
this respect. The Amateur Entomologists’ Society are to be congratu- 
lated for inaugurating the work and for producing such a handy book- 
let, giving in concise form the more important details about each 
Society’, some 600 in all covering the British Isles. The information 
is arranged always in the same order, the first entry l)eing the name 
of the Society with its address, or that of the Secretary. Then follow 
five paragraphs, the first giving date of foundation, area covered and 
affiliations (if any), the second membership under classes, the third 
[Meetings, under Indoor, Field and Other, frequency, dates, times and 
[)lace, the fourth Amenities such as Libraries and Equipment, and the 
fifth Periodicals and other ])ublications issued. 
There is a foreivord entitled “ The Role of the Local Natural History 
Society ” contributed by Dr Jidian Huxley. There is also a ‘‘Caution- 
ary Voice from the Past,” an extract from a speech of the Hon. Secre- 
tary of the Essex Field Club in 1898, which we quote here, as the words 
have an even greater bearing upon Natural History Societies to-day 
than in the past; — “ I, personally, am an advocate for the encourage- 
ment of two large and flourishing societies in each county in the King- 
dom — a scientific (natural history) society and an archaeological. The 
