Biological Survey – Need & Network is a report from a Working Party set up by the Linnean Society in 1988, under the Chairmanship of Professor R J Berry.
The document is the result of concern about the state and lack of co-ordination of biological recording in the British Isles, expressed at two open meetings (at Leicester, 13-14 September 1984, organized by the Biological Curators’ Group, and a follow-up in London, 7-18 April 1985) which led to the formation of a National Federation for Biological Recording and a request to the Linnean Society for a comprehensive review of biological recording.