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NATURE NOTES 
Library. — The Honorary Librarian will attend at 20, Hanover Squ.are, 
from 6 p.tn. to 6.30 p.m., on the evenings of December 16 and January 20, for 
the purpose of issuing boolcs to members. 
The Honorary Librarian has pleasure in announcing the following additions 
to the Library : Wild Fruits of the Countryside, by F. E. Hulme ; Neolithic 
Dew-Ponds and Cattle-Ways, by A. J. and G. Hubbard ; Every Boy’s Book of 
British Natural History, Eifty-two Nature Rambles, and Story of Insect Life, by 
W. Percival Westell ; all kindly presented by the Editor. White’s “ Selborne,” 
edited by Sir W. Jardine (Sir John Lubbock’s Flundred Books), pvirchased by 
the .Society- 
EXCURSIONS. 
Saturday, November 23. — A party of forty Selbornians and members of the 
Ealing Scientific and Microscopical Society assembled to meet Dr. A. B. Rendle, 
Keeper of the Department of Botany, at the Natural Hi>tory Museum. Dr. 
Rendle, in his usual entertaining manner, told the story of the life and achiev- 
ments of Carl Linnaeus, the great Swedish botanist, and described the unique 
collection of memorials which has been formed to commemorate the bicentenary 
of his birth. This collection will be exhibited for a few months longer in the 
second bay on the east side of the Central Hall at the Museum, and as Uie special 
guide-book No. 3 — which is on sale at the Museum at 3d. — gives a full account 
of the exhibits, it is unnecessary to recapitulate the details here. All who are 
interested are recommended to send for a copy. 
At the close a hearty vote of thanks was given to Dr. Rendle for his very 
instructive and interesting address, on the proposition of Mr. W. H. Swain, of 
the Ealing Society, seconded by Mr. A. W. Oke, Delegate of the Brighton 
Branch of the Selborne Society. 
FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
Council and Committee Meetings. 
Motiday, December 16. — General Purposes Committee at 5.30 p.m. 
Monday , January 20. — General Purposes Committee at 5.30 p.m. 
Tuesday, fa 7 iuary 27, 1908. — Council Meeting at 5.30 p.m. 
Saturday, December 7. — The third Autumn Meeting of the South-Easftrn 
Union of Scientific Societies will be held on this date, and will take the form 
of a visit to the rooms of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly 
(by kind permission of the President and Council). Afternoon tea will be .served 
from 4 to 4.30 p.m. in the ante-room. A brief address will be delivered at 4.30 
in the Lecture Theatre by the President of the Union, Professor Silvanus P. 
Thompson, D.Sc. , giving the history of the Society, and mentioning the 
principal objects of interest in the Society’s apartments. The visitors will then 
be conducted to the library, council-room, &c., and will be shown a number 
of interesting exhibits, the Charter Book, the Mace (given by Charles II.) 
.Sir Isaac Newton’s manuscripts and his reflecting telescope. The attention of 
visitors will al.so be directed to the principal portiaits in the historic collection. 
The proceedings will terminate about 5.30 p.m. 
Admission can only be obtained by ticket, and every application for the same 
should be accompanied by a remittance of sixpence per ticket to cover the cost of 
postage and printing. No charge is made for tea. The tickets are strictly limited 
in number, and aie restricted to members of the affiliated societies, so early 
application is desirable. 
Members of the Selborne Society who wish to attend should apply at once to 
Mr. H. Norman Gray, Autumn Meetings Hon. Secretary, S.E.U.S.S., 334, 
Commercial Road, F. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
M. E. Maginniss. — Chrysopa per/a, one of the “• Golden-eyes,” belonging to 
the Family Ilemerobiidit of the Sub-Order I'lauipeniiia of the Order Neuroptcra. 
The larva feeds upon ajihides. 
