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NATURE NOTES 
^Ir. R. B. Lodge followed with his beautiful series of photo- 
graphs entitled “ British Birds at Home and Abroad.” 
The Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., exhibited several 
sets of prints showing the evolution of florists’ flowers which he 
explained during the evening. 
On the first floor microscopes were exhibited by members of 
the Quekett and Royal Microscopical Societies, and a series 
of pictures and objects of interest, kindly lent by F. W. 
Ashley, Esq., F.Z.S., Professor G. S. Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S., 
Mrs. Brightwen, F.E.S., J. E. Cooper, Esq., Fredk. Enock, 
Esq., F.L.S., F.E.S., &c., the Rev. Professor Flenslow, M.A., 
F.L.S., Ernest Hinton, Esq., A. H. Macpherson, Esq., B.C.L., 
M.A., F.Z.S., Edward A. Martin, Esq., F.G.S., F. Primrose 
Stevenson, Esq., L. E. Taylor, Esq., IMiss Woodd, and others. 
Among the exhibits were several water-colour drawings of a 
well-nigh forgotten naturalist, the late Mr. Edward Adams, 
who accompanied the Investigator and Enterprise of the Franklin 
Search Expeditions as assistant-surgeon and naturalist, between 
the years 1848-50. The drawings in question were made of the 
various places of interest which he visited in the Arctic regions, 
where he also formed a considerable collection of birds. Some 
of these are deposited in the Natural History Museum, whilst 
others were presented to his ornithological friends, including 
Mr. John Gould and Mr. G. R. Gray, who dedicated Colymbus 
Adamsi in commemoration of Mr. Adams’s labours. Subse- 
quently Mr. Adams was gazetted full-surgeon to the steam sloop 
Hecla, but died of fever at Sierra Leone. The drawings were 
lent by F". Primrose Stevenson, Esq. 
SELBORNIANA. 
“ A Vanishing Village.” — Mr. A. Leonard Summers of 
Richmond Hill, Surrey, writes : “ In the April number of The 
Surrey Magazine I wrote an article under the above title, on 
Petersham, reviewing its glorious past, hinting at its possible 
inglorious future, and pointing out that the pretty little old- 
world village was fast losing its former rurality, degenerating, 
and also losing its natural beauty. I regretted the disappear- 
ance of the two mansions called ‘ Petersham Lodge,’ the 
house owned by Sir George Scott, K.C.B., till 1841, and 
‘ Bute House,’ the one-time seat of the Marquises of Bute, and 
the obliteration of other ‘ landmarks of history ’ from time to 
time. I also deplored the fact that one of the few remaining 
old historical mansions — ‘ Sudbrook,’ the former residence of 
John, Duke of Argyll — had been converted into a hydropathic 
establishment, and its romantic old grounds cut up to form golf- 
links for a local Club. 
“ As you probably remember, in 1895 Bute House was 
