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ON July 22, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres opened the Nature sanctuary at Cotterill Clough. Cheshire, formed by public subscription in memory of the late T. A. Coward, sometime lecturer in the University of Manchester and author of “The Birds of Cheshire”, “The Fauna of Cheshire”, etc. The deeds were handed over to the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves. The Earl of Stamford, chairman of the memorial committee, said 1,570 people from all parts of the world had subscribed £925 to save this well-known haunt of fauna and flora, and also a second memorial sanctuary at Mar-bury Mere, and subscriptions coming from so far apart as Canada and Hong-Kong showed the wide appreciation of Mr. Coward's work. The sanctuaries were chosen not only for their own particular appropriateness and value for study, but also because Coward himself studied in them so often. One part of the sanctuary will be permanently closed as a true Nature sanctuary for wild life, but a public right of way will exist at another part where visitors can see down the sanctuary and hear the bird songs. A bronze memorial plaque on a glacial boulder brought from the Bollin Valley is inscribed: “In Memory of Thomas Alfred Coward, M.Sc.,1867-1933Cotterill Clough and Marbury Reed Bed were purchased by public subscription to remain for ever undisturbed Nature reserves as a memorial to his great services to natural science”. Already studies have been made in the sanctuary by the Manchester branch of the British Empire Naturalists' Association and the Altrincham Natural History Society. The opening ceremony in the Clough was attended by delegates from natural history, scientific, ramblers, and other bodies chiefly from the north of England.
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T. A. Coward Memorial Sanctuaries. Nature 136, 174–175 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136174d0
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