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the school, the party then inspected the fine cedars, the gigantic Portugal laurel 
and other relics, arboreal and pictorial, of Peter Collinson, so that the light was 
already failing when they started on their ramble across the meadows to Edgware. 
Thirty-five in all joined in the walk, which was unanimously voted a success. 
FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
Council and Committee Meetings. 
Monday, October 21. — General Purposes Committee at 5.30 p.m. 
Tuesday, November 26. — Council Meeting at 5.30 p.m. 
Excursions. 
The Annual Fungus Foray of the Essex Field Club. 
The Essex Field Club kindly extend an invitation to members of the .Selborne 
Society to attend this ever popular function. The details are not yet fixed, but 
it will probably take place at Chelmsford on either October 19 or 26, Members 
wishing to attend should write at once to Mr. H. H. Poole, Honorary Excursions 
.Secretary, at 16, Ileathcote Street, W.C., enclosing stamp for reply. The 
details will then be forwarded directly they are settled. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
■ J.^L. Ott6T. — Astragalus qalegiformis L., a native of South-eastern Europe 
and of Asia, from .Siberia to China, which is in cultivation. 
Met. — Ginkgo biloba L., the Maiden-hair tree ; and Pyrus Aria Ehrh., the 
White Beam, in a wide sense, perhaps nearer to P. latifolia Syme. 
Miss C. D. — Apparently the larva of the Cockchafer {Melolonlha). 
Donald Mathews.' — Both sets of insects’shall be 'reported upon next 
month. 
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