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to prepare evidence against the ventilators, to be laid before the arbitrators to- 
whom the final settlement of the question was deputed. The arbitration was 
held on May the 5th, when Sir Edward Ilertslet, Mr. Edward King, Councillor 
I lilditch and Councillor Wakefield intervened on behalf of the position of the 
Selborne Society ; but, to quote the Thames Valley Times, “the Board adhered 
to their decision to claim the award upon the mere question of obstruction and 
injury to the use of the path, excluding the aesthetic question, although they 
allowed evidence on that important branch of the subject to be brought in by a 
sidewind.' - ’ The result was that the Drainage Board announced their intention 
of erecting, instead of eight, only five ventilators, two of these five to be used as 
inlets, leaving only three to extract the foul air from the sewer. 
We have received a full report, well printed in an 8vo pamphlet, of the Con- 
versazione of the Bath Branch, which was briefly mentioned last month. Our 
readers will regret to hear that the slight delay in its production was due to the 
illness of that ever-active Selbornian, Mr. W. G. Wheatcroft, Hon. Secretary of 
the Bath Branch. The leading feature of the very interesting report was Mr. 
Wheatcroft’s paper on “ The English Lakeland,” of a similar nature to his article 
in the last December number of Nature Notes. By his kind permission, we 
hope soon to be able to reprint some of his address. 
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Owing to the very great pressure on our pages this month, and the necessity 
of inserting the report of the Annual Meeting of the Selborne Society, we 
have been obliged to omit the column of “Natural History Notes and Queries” 
and several Reviews, and to postpone a number of articles already in type, 
including contributions by Miss Elizabeth Martyn, Mr. J. R. Jackson, Curator 
of the Kew Museums, Mr. Theodore Compton, Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, and Mr. 
Archibald Clarke. 
To prevent mistake or disappointment, we request attention to the following 
rules : — 
As Nature Notes is published on the 15th of each month, and the amount 
of MS. material received is always far greater than the available space, 
contributions should be forwarded before the istofthe month in which it 
is desired that they should appear. 
Correspondence intended for insertion in the magazine should be carefully dis- 
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When it is particularly requested, MSS. not accepted will be returned, it 
stamps sufficient to pay the postage are sent for that purpose. 
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