The distribution of our Essex membership A map of our national membership can be seen on our website at www.essexfieldclub.org.uk/portal/p/Our+membership/ MapMate records If you are using MapMate for your biological records, then please send these on regular occasions using the MapMate synchronisation process. If the County Recorder MapMate details are not listed, please contact your County Recorder to find out whether they are able to receive records in this form or you can send your MapMate records to Peter Harvey (cuk 2gv and email grays@peterhaivey.freeserve.co.uk), who will forward them on. Current details for County Recorders who are definitely able to receive MapMate sync records are as follows, but at least 7 more are or will be using MapMate and may be able and willing to receive records in this way: County Recorder MapMate Email Taxonomic groups CUK Tim Gardiner 3kb tg@writtle.ac.uk Orthoptera Peter Hammond 6q2 peter.m.hammond@virgin.net Coleoptera Mark Hanson 6q4 Veteran Trees Neil Harvey 2hb neilh@essexwt.org.uk Larger Brachycera Peter Harvey 2gv grays@peterharvey.freeserve.co.uk Arachnida, Hymenoptera, Isopoda David Scott 6qn david.scott76@btopenworld.com Reptiles and amphibians Del Smith 6bc delsmith444@btinternet.com Diptera (except hoverflies and larger Brachycera) Essex Field Club Newsletter No. 55, January 2008 25