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educational value of the Collections in the Museum. He considered

an endowment of £20,000 to be the minimum necessary to put the

Museum into such a position that the building and the collections

could be adequately preserved and the work of the Museum carried

on in a satisfactory manner. It is to fulfil Viscount Grey’s expressed

desire with regard to the safeguarding of the Museum that this Memorial

Endowment Fund is to be established.


All North Country folk are invited to respond to this appeal towards

the foundation of such a memorial. Contributions may be sent to the

Patron and President of the Natural History Society of Northumberland,

Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the Museum or to Mr. J. A. T.

Middleton, Hon. Treasurer of the Appeal Fund, at Lloyds Bank, Ltd.,

Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Should intending subscribers

desire to spread their contributions over a number of years they may

do so.


E. F. C.



EDITORIAL


I should like to take this opportunity of thanking those members

who have kindly written to encourage me on starting my editorial

career. I hope they will forgive me for reminding them that my success

or failure lies with them. If they will only send me articles and notes

on birds, common birds as well as rare ones, the Magazine will prosper,

but I cannot make bricks without straw. If through diffidence or

indifference they will not put pen to paper we are bound to go down hill.


So please do not wait until you have a first breeding or other notable

success to record ; people love to hear about other people’s birds, their

tameness and “ ways ”, no matter whether they are the commonest

under the sun, or the breeding result which has been chronicled a dozen

times already. All is grist to the mill and will fatten our rather lean

numbers and cause your Editor’s heart to leap for joy.


E. F. Chawner.



