The Pat-Hill Cottingham Memorial Fund, administered by the committee, is devoted to encouraging and assisting high quality research into the natural sciences (biology, geology, paleontology, zoology, mycology, ecology) in the historic county of Somerset by offering financial support for aspects of research that could not otherwise be funded from other sources.
The Committee encourages natural history papers to be submitted to the Society’s Annual Proceedings as a full paper, or shorter communications and reports, for the ‘Ecology in Somerset’ section of the Proceedings.