IRatuce IRotes : 
^be Selborne Societig’s ^Iftagasinc. 
No. 123. MARCH, 1900. VoL. XL 
SELBORNIANA. 
Our President. — Unfortunately, we went to press last month 
just before the news reached us of the title which our President 
has chosen. We are, therefore, a little jealous of our friendly 
rival, Science Gossip, which was beforehand with us in stating that 
Sir John Lubbock will in future be known as the Right Hon. 
Lord Avebury, from his property in Wiltshire, which contains 
the greatest of English megalithic, or so-called Druidical, monu- 
ments. Aubrey says of it that it “ did as much exceed Stone- 
henge as a cathedral does a parish church.” 
The Royal Buckhounds. — The petition promoted by tlie 
Sports Department of the Humanitarian League was presented 
to the Premier on January 27. It bore the signatures of 5 lay 
peers, headed by the Earl of Stamford, the lineal representative 
of Gilbert White ; of 8 bishops, 77 members of the House of 
Commons, 8 deans, 14 provincial mayors, 12 principals of col- 
leges, 5 University professors, and 24 head -masters of public 
schools. 
Humanitarian League Conversazione. —A Conversazione 
is announced by the Humanitarian League, to be held on Wed- 
nesday, March 21, at St. Martin’s Town Hall, W.C., from 8 to 
II p.m. Tickets, price one shilling each, can be obtained from 
the Office, 53, Chancery Lane. 
Flowers of the Field.— The twenty-ninth edition of the 
Rev. C. A. Johns’ “ Flowers of the Field,” is published to-day. 
It has been entirely re-written by the editor of Nature Notes, 
and now, the description of the grasses and sedges being incor- 
porated, amounts to 982 pages. It contains a number of new 
illustrations by Miss Emily Carter, and is published, by the 
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at 7s. 6d. 
