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engravings, etchings, and chromo-lithographs from the works of 
old masters and living artists, as well as studies from nature, of 
birds, and beasts, and flowers. 
It is the last subjects which appeal especially to Selbornians, 
and the Association’s work with regard to them is what we wish 
to bring before our readers. According to the last Report no 
fewer than 1,399 out of the 3,711 pictures sold by the Associa- 
tion during 1890 were of Natural History subjects. Of these 
355 were plates from Lord Lilford’s Birds of the British Islands, 
and 351 from Mr. Hulme’s Familiar Wild Flowers — these having 
been placed at the disposal of the Association by the publishers 
of these works. They are somewhat small for school use, but 
several are usually placed in one frame. Of Mr. Dixon’s photo- 
graphs of animals 174 were sold. 
But the special object we have in view in bringing the Asso- 
ciation before the readers of Nature Notes is to call attention 
to the “ Studies of Natural Objects,” published by the Associa- 
tion. These are large enough to be effective in a schoolroom, 
and in design and colouring leave little to be desired ; while the 
price brings them within the reach of even the poorest schools. 
The flower pictures can be suitably mounted and framed for 
four shillings each, or they may be simply mounted on canvas 
and varnished and so hung on the walls. The following is 
a list of the pictures issued in this class, with size and price ; all 
save the last (an autotype) are chromo-lithographs : — ■ 
Sunflower, 22m. by 30m. Price to subscribers, is. 3d. ; 
non-subscribers, 2s. 6d. 
Foxglove, 22in. by 30m. Prices, is. 3d. and 2s. 6d. 
A Flight of Fieldfares, by R. Caldecott, 30m. by 22m. 
Prices, is. and 2s. 
Peaches, 17m. by 22m. Prices, is. 6d. and 3s. 
Lily, 22in. by 30m. Prices, 2s. and 3s. 
Iris, 22in. by 30m. Prices, 2s. and 3s. 
Rabbits, after George Morland. Autotype. 19m. by 15m. 
Prices 2s. and 3s. 
We have spoken elsewhere of the need which exists for 
Selbornian literature in schools, and we would here urge upon 
the members of our Society the desirability of their encouraging 
as far as possible the use of such pictures as those mentioned 
above. The rooms of the Art for Schools Association, where 
these and other pictures can be seen every day, except Satur- 
day, between 11 and 5, are at 29, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, 
W.C. 
It would probably be more difficult to introduce living plants 
and birds into schools, but it is not impossible. At Mount 
Melleray, near Cappoquin, in County Cork, where the Carthu- 
sians have literally succeeded in making the desert to blossom as 
the rose, there is a large free school, established for the children 
of the scattered farms and cottages, who come iong distances for 
their daily instruction, and are furnished with food for the body 
