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IN 1944 members of the Glasgow and Andersonian Natural History and Microscopical Society, including Dr. Inglis Cameron, carried out preliminary work which resulted in the inauguration in April 1945 of the West of Scotland Field Studies Council. On the Council are representatives of youth organizations, scientific societies, colleges and the University of Glasgow. Prof. Balfour Brown and Prof. C. M. Yonge, who have connexions with similar organizations in the south of Britain, are also on the Council. The Council is mainly, but not exclusively, concerned with the popularization of field studies. Its membership is widely representative, and includes amateur and professional naturalists, educationists, representatives of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association, Boy Scouts, etc. Its constitution provides it with useful powers of co-option. The Council is anxious to get in touch with other organizations of a similar nature, so that some type of co-operation may be established and there may be a free exchange of ideas. It has already set up panels of lecturers and outdoor guides, and is considering the preparation of guide-books to the natural history of the west of Scotland. The chairman is Prof. John Walton; the honorary secretary is Dr. T. Gregory Absalom, Art Galleries and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, C.3, to whom communications should be addressed.
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West of Scotland Field Studies Council. Nature 156, 331 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156331a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156331a0