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tion of natural monuments. Thus, 
the Council of the Geological Society 
of London has just contributed, from 
the Barlow Jameson Fund, a sum to 
secure the preservation of the above 
mentioned Sarsen Stones, called the 
Grey Wethers (page lo). The Sel- 
borne Society, founded in London in 
1885, 3.ims to promote the study of 
natural history, to preserve wild plants 
and animals from needless destruction, 
and to protect places of natural beauty 
and of antiquarian interest. The 
Society arranges lectures and pub- 
lishes a monthly journal, Nature 
Notes, which contains papers on the 
preservation of natural monuments. 
The Entomological Society of London 
also has a committee for the protection 
of insects. But beyond issuing a list 
of those Lepidoptera, which the com- 
mittee thought ought to be protected, it 
has done nothing as yet in the matter. 
