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at 2.27, Surbiton at 2.47. Cheap return tickets, is. 7d. ; walking distance about 
3 miles. Guide, Mr. Hubert II. Poole. 
Saturday, June 15. — Weybridge and the banks of the Wey. Train leaves 
Waterloo at 2.28, Clapham Junction at 2.27. Passengers from Clapham Junction 
change at Surbiton. Take return tickets to Weybridge, 2S. lod. Walking dis- 
tance, 5 miles. Guide, Dr. Henry Willson. 
Saturday, June 22. — Burnham Beeches, Stoke Poges, and East Burnham 
Park (by kind invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Veilch). Train leaves Pad- 
dington (G.W.R.) at 2.33, arriving at Slough 3.12 ; the party will drive to Stoke 
Poges and to East Burnham Park, and after tea will walk to Burnham Beeches 
and drive back to Slough. 
On account of the necessity for arranging for the vehicles beforehand, members 
wishing to attend must notify the E.xcursions Secretary before June 12, enclosing 
remittance of 4s. to cover cost of train and drive. If members will give notice to 
the Excursions Secretary well before this date it will greatly assist him. The 
Excursions Secretary will take all tickets, and will meet members on the platform 
at Paddington ten minutes before the departure of the train. 
Saturday, June 29. — West Drayton and Iver. Meet at West Drayton Station 
on arrival of train leaving Paddington at 2.33, Ealing at 2.46. Return fare, 
IS. 5d. Guide, Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S. 
Saturday, July 6. — Cassiobury Park and Gardens, Watford (the Gardens by 
kind permission of Mrs. Peel), Whippendale Wood and Chandler’s Cross. Meet 
outside Watford Station (L. & N.W.R.), at 3 p.m. Train leaves Broad Street 
at 1.45, Euston at 2.20, Willesden Junction 2.30. Cheap tickets can be taken 
at Euston, is. pd. return. Tea at Keeper’s Cottage. Walking distance, 7 
miles. Return trains leave Watford at 7.50 and 8.35. Guide, Mr. W. 
Percival Westell, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. 
All communications -with regard to Excursions should be addressed to Mr. 
H. II. Poole, Honorary Secretary of the Excursions Committee, at 16, Heathcote 
Street, W.C. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Miss A. M. Bonus. — The insect from North Queensland is not a beetle, 
but hemipterous, one of the Pentatomidte, Tectocoris lineola, P^abr. 
Peter Hastie. — The plant sent is Phacelia tanacetifolia, Benth., one of the 
Hydrophyllacere, a native of sandy and gravelly stream-banks in Western Cali- 
fornia, much grown by apiarists for the sake of its honey. 
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