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WHILE interest in museums appears to be growing, many societies devoted to natural history find it difficult to retain the membership of former years. The Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Society is fortunate in having raised its membership, by a small addition, to 613, but even so the cost of running the Hancock Museum is mainly responsible for a raiding of the Maintenance Appeal Fund to the extent of £245, so that the Fund is on the verge of extinction. The Museum does good work, and under the guidance of T. Russell Goddard and many helpers, is alive to the need for interesting the public by wild-flower exhibits, seasonal exhibitions of Lepidoptera, an observation hive, lectures and the like. Unless further support is forthcoming, it would appear from the financial statement that the activities of the Museum run the danger of curtailment.
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A Natural History Society in Northern England. Nature 133, 253 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133253c0
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