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AFTER much discussion, extending over two quarterly meetings, the council of the British Empire Naturalists' Association has agreed to form a special section to deal with field natural history records. A properly spaced system of observers is to be built up all over Great Britain, and eventually a committee of experts will be formed to decide upon the problems to be tackled, and the methods to be adopted. Plans are at present being made for a conference of branch secretaries in London next April. For some ten years, the British Empire Naturalists' Association has worked a system of publishing in its quarterly journal, Country-Side, bird, plant and insect records of seasonal and statistical interest, grouped in the various counties. Not only was this incomplete, in that records were more quickly forthcoming from southern areas richest in resident naturalists, and other northern areas were neglected, but also in flora especially no complete review could be made owing to the necessity of finding room for other matters in the journal. The new scheme will be welcomed by historians of field natural history, who often have to go through masses of local and national publications for scattered field records of varying value.
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New System for Nature Recording. Nature 136, 1023 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361023b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1361023b0