The interest of members of the Society in the fate of the Red Squirrel and its presumed supplantation by the Grey has led to an interesting inquiry. The Director-General of the Nature Conservancy, Captain Cyril Diver, very kindly got in touch with Mr. Charles Elton, of the Bureau of Animal Population, who sent for our use a report by Miss Monica Shorten of a survey carried out by her in 1944–45 on the distribution of the two squirrels. Captain Diver also consulted Sir William Ling Taylor, C.B.E., late Director-General of the Forestry Commission, who has kindly allowed us to make use of the reply he gave. We have also to thank Dr. Maurice Burton for his article “The Chequered Story of Red Squirrels” in the Illustrated London News of 7th April, 1951.