New Merseyside Nature Society

Abstract

FOLLOWING an inaugural field-meeting at Freshfield dunes and shore on December 11, a new nature study society for south-west Lancashire and Wirral was launched, as the Merseyside Branch of the British Empire Naturalists' Association, when the following officials were elected for 1939: Hon. President, J. W. Nixon (who is the Ribble Valley representative of the B.E.N.A. and honorary secretary of the Blackburn Naturalists' Field Club); Chairman, J. C. Miller, of the University of Liverpool; Hon. Organizing Secretary, Eric Hardy. It was announced that the new Merseyside Naturalists' Association would cover the area between the Ribble and the Dee on a much more modern and active method of general field nature study than was at present available in the area, although it was in no way antagonistic to some ten older natural history societies in the district. Mr. Hardy stated that the Society had, been formed by about fifty naturalists and nature-lovers who had given their signatures to the desire for introducing the B.E.N.A. work to Merseyside. It was agreed that in 1939 they report on their area for the national bird survey being carried out by the scientific committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, and for the selected list of trees and insects chosen for national observation by the B.E.N.A. headquarters. Arrangements had been made for combination with the branches of the B.E.N.A. for Manchester and West Lancashire (Lytham).