IRature (Rotes : 
Zbe Selbome Societ^e’s flDagasine 
No. 125. 
MAY, 1900. 
VoL. XL 
SELBORNIANA. 
Annual Meeting and Conversazione. — The announce- 
ment at the end of the present number will show that members 
attending the Annual Meeting and Conversazione will find no 
lack of interest, what with lectures by Mr. Enoch and Mr. Lodge, 
to say nothing of the other speakers, and the exhibition of 
microscopes and other objects of interest. Tickets must be 
applied for in advance. 
South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies: Congress 
AT Brighton. — Members of the Selborne Society may be 
interested to know that the fifth annual Congress of this Union, 
to which the Selborne Society is affiliated, will be held at 
Brighton and Hove, on June 7, 8 and 9. All the meetings will 
be held in the Brighton Pavilion, except a reception by the 
Mayor of Hove on the evening of June 8. There will be a 
photographic exhibition on the afternoon of the 7th, a reception 
by the Ma}mr of Brighton on the evening of that day, at which 
Professor G. B. Howes, F.R.S., will deliver the presidential 
address. The morning and afternoon of the 8th and the morning 
of the 9th will be devoted to scientific papers and discussions, 
and there will be various excursions on the afternoon of the 9th. 
Members of the Selborne Society can become members of the 
Union on payment of 2s. 6d., and can obtain tickets and full 
particulars from the Hon. Secretary, Dr. G. Abbott, 33, Upper 
Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells. 
!i '] Fresh-killed Sea-birds. — With reference to the paragraph 
in >our February issue with this heading we have received a 
letter from Mr. W. J. Clarke, of Scarborough, in which he says, 
“ Will you allow me to say that I do not keep ‘ a supply of fresh 
