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DESPITE the increasing difficulties and demands upon the spare–time, amateur as well as professional, natural history continues in Great Britain. The summer Bulletin of the British Empire Naturalists' Association records the continuance of branch activities at Bournemouth, Merseyside, Derbyshire, North Cotswold, London, Manchester and Lancaster; in fact only two branches have closed since the outbreak of war. 1941 field records include the first definite nesting of the fulmar on St. Bee's Cliff, Cumberland; Bewick's swans and a green sandpiper on spring passage in Lancashire; a fire–crest at Stanmore, Middlesex, on April 6; siskins at Farnham, Surrey, April 30, and a bird migration survey over twelve counties. The 1940 edition of the Burton–on–Trent Natural History and Archæological Society records has appeared and directs attention to the opportunity for studying the changes the war–time felling of woods will have upon bird, plant and insect life.
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British Natural History. Nature 148, 81–82 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148081d0
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