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THE British Empire Naturalists’ Association has decided to suspend further publication of its quarterly journal Country-Side during the war, but in order to continue the maximum amount of activities, full power has been given to the various branches to carry on under their own organization until such times as normal conditions return. There will be circulated, however, the usual quarterly issues of the Branch News, in order to keep branches in contact with headquarters. The decision was made not without regrets, but the view maintained was that by conserving funds now, the Association would be in a stronger position to resume its full activities when peace returns, rather than to weaken itself by struggling against the rising costs and difficulties of voluntary labour. Numerous provincial natural history societies have cancelled their programmes, and others have adopted a method of meeting in the afternoons.
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The British Empire Naturalists’ Association. Nature 144, 749 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144749c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144749c0