IRature IWotes : 
tTbe Selbotne Societie’s ^IDagasine. 
No. 128. AUGUST, 1900. VoL. XL 
SELBORNIANA. 
Richmond Old Deer Park. — It is much to be regretted 
that there should be a division of opinion among naturalists 
as to the proposed laboratory in the Old Deer Park. Those 
who investigate Nature by experiment under artificially limited 
conditions do not need to be assured that those who prefer to 
examine her ways under the untrammelled conditions of wild 
life are in no wise inimical to other methods of research. At 
the same time we are convinced that there are many sites pro- 
curable within a short distance from London which would not 
be so menacing to what is wild and beautiful as that proposed. 
We hope members of the Selborne Society will bring all the 
pressure in their power upon the Government to secure the 
abandonment of the present scheme. 
The Thames Preservation League. — Mr. R. Percy 
Stephenson has been appointed secretary to this useful body, 
whose headquarters are at i, Great College Street, and is 
anxious to be brought into communication with all who are 
interested in the Thames. The League is keeping a vigilant 
eye upon various matters of vital importance to the river- 
haunting public, such as the extension of buildings along the 
river-front at Reading and the public access to the towing-paths 
and ferries. 
Wanted an Interpreter. — The Maurice Hostel Field Club, 
a recently-established organisation, mainly of working men, 
under the presidency of Canon Scott Holland, have at the outset 
of their career experienced a great loss in the departure from 
London of their “ guide, philosopher and friend,” Mr. Harry 
Lowerison, and in thek First Annual Report they say : — 
