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In the Upper Gallery was exhibited the work (mainly in connection with 
Nature Study) which was sent in by a very large number of schools, societies and 
individuals. Bees at work in their hives were also exhibited in the Upper 
Gallery. 
The Rural Education Sub-Committee of the County 
Councils Association, upon which Mr. Webb also served, with 
the object of promoting the study of Nature in rural schools and 
other matters bearing on rural life, has asked a number of 
Education Committees to exhibit Nattire study work at agri- 
cultural shows. Arrangements have been made in connection 
with the Royal Agricultural Show at Lincoln, the Bath and 
West Show at Newport, and the Royal Counties Show at 
Maidenhead. 
In his capacity of Honorary Secretary of the Nature Study 
Section of the League of the Empire, Mr. Webb arranged two 
sectional meetings in connection with the important Federal 
Conference on Education opened on Empire day at Caxton Hall, 
Westminster, and gave a lecture entitled “ Illustrations of 
Nature Study.” The Conference was attended by upwards 
of 200 delegates from the Colonies and countries of the Empire 
and British Universities. 
The South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. — Mr. J. L. Otter, 
(Honorary Treasurer) and the Honorary Secretary, represented the 
Society at the Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 
Societies at Eastbourne, and a number of other members of the 
Society attended. Up to the year 1906 the Selborne Society 
was represented at the Congress by two delegates only, but 
taking into consideration the fact that it is the largest Society 
affiliated to the Union, it was decided during the past year 
to increase the subscription so that the Selborne Society 
should be represented by four delegates in future. 
Excursions. — Twenty-four excursions took place in the 
summer of 1906, of which one was in conjunction with the 
Essex Field Club, and another with the South-Eastern Union 
of Scientific Societies. At the remaining twenty-two there were 
present 410 members and their friends, making an average 
attendance of 19. The winter meetings, ten in number, were 
particularly successful, and once again the Society is indebted 
to the Lord Chamberlain for kind permission to visit St. James’s 
Palace. The total attendance at the winter meetings was 373, 
the average being 37. The thanks of the Society are due to all the 
members and others who were so kind as to conduct the excur- 
sions and rambles. The whole work of organising these thirty- 
two excursions, which is no small undertaking, has fallen upon 
Mr. Hubert H. Poole (Honorary Secretary of the Excursions 
Committee), and the Society is greatly indebted to Mr. Poole 
for conducting one of the most important branches of its work. 
