A Happy Alliance
A peculiarly happy association exists between the National Trust and naturalists in general ; and this is particularly well illustrated in regard to the Council for the Promotion of Field Studies. All the three centres at Malham in Yorkshire, at Juniper Hall and at Flatford Mill on the borders of Essex and Suffolk, are National Trust properties for which this most excellent use has been found. What a summary of the best of natural history, and what an illustration of the variety of Bntain would be given to a student who should spend a recreational week or two at each of the four centres. Of these the newest and most original is Dale Fort on Milford Harbour with its access to the incomparable Skokholm Island. Islands seem to be coming into their own. Even Thorney Island, a little old disused fort at the mouth of Milford Harbour, is now a place of entertainment and recreation. In regard to books about to be produced by the Council these are to be published, not by Cambridge, as I wrote, but by Methuen and Co.
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