What Is It ?
Most country people, even if they are considerably learned, come from time to time upon some creature which they do not know and would like to identify. How shall this ignorance he dissipated? One way is to join the Amateur Entomological Society (I West Ham Lane, E.15), which was first founded chiefly for exchange purposes, but now issues an admirable bulletin dispatched to all members. It is also in its newer form associated with the wholly admirable Council for the Promotion of Field Studies, which is, I believe, just about to start a fifth Field Centre (in Northumberland). Two of these centres I know well, and think both peculiarly attractive to any lover of scenery as well as any naturalist. The association with the tnemory of Constable gives Flatford Mill a certain pre-eminence on the East side, and Dale Fort on the West, with its adjacent island of Skokholm, is unique. No other centre even mildly suggests it. Members of the newly constituted A.E.S. are given special privileges at these and the other two or three centres.
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