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IN December 1943 the Committee of the Amateur Entomologists' Society agreed to compile a Directory of Natural History Societies. Quite independently, Miss R. S. Shove suggested in School Nature Study of January 1944 that a list should be prepared of school natural history societies and field clubs. As a result it was decided to trust the entire work to the Amateur Entomologists' Society, the School Nature Study Union agreeing to assist in the preparation of a schools section. In its early stages the compilation was directed by W. G. Rawlings ; he was later succeeded by H. K. Airy Shaw. The Directory has now been completed and contains a list of all organisations with any biological interests, excluding bodies of an economic or professional nature. All societies, past and present, of which the Society could find any record in the British Isles, have been included. These have been arranged first to give information about national societies and then local societies, arranged in order of counties. The material arranged under each entry in the Directory is sufficient to guide naturalists in a distant county to a group of like-minded individuals. Not the least important parts of the Directory are the particulars of so many school natural history societies. The Directory can be obtained from the Secretary, Amateur Entomologists' Society, 1 West Ham Lane, London, E.15.
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Directory of Natural History Societies. Nature 162, 647 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162647b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162647b0