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Zhc Selborne Societig’s ^IDagasine 
No. 130. OCTOBER, 1900. Vol. XL 
SELBORNIANA. 
Local Corresponding Secretaries. — The Council have 
decided to invite the leading Natural History Societies in those 
places in the United Kingdom where no branch of the Selborne 
Society exists to nominate, from among their own resident 
members, an Honorary Local Corresponding Secretary of the 
Selborne Society, who is to receive Nature Notes for at least 
a twelvemonth, and who will form a channel of communication 
for, it is hoped, the mutual benefit of the societies. 
Forthcoming Life of Gilbert White. — Mr. John Murray 
announces in his List of Forthcoming Publications a Life of 
Gilbert White, based on letters and other documents not 
hitherto published, by his great grand-nephew, Mr. Rashleigh 
Holt White, one of our Vice-presidents, with illustrations from 
family pictures and including a journal for 1763 by one of the 
“ Miss Batties,” in two volumes, demy 8vo. 
Philistinism in the Lake District. — Every one who has 
any appreciation of the charms of natural scenery must have 
heard with amazement, horror and indignation that it was pro- 
posed to run a system of electric tramways, by that “ overhead ” 
system which necessitates pairs of posts at frequent intervals 
with transverse and longitudinal wires, from Windermere to 
Ambleside. Naturally many local residents, including our 
energetic Vice-President, Canon Rawnsley, were at once up in 
arms, and letters and articles in the press showed that the beauty 
of Lakeland is treasured not as a local, but as a national pos- 
session. The scheme w'as reported to be abandoned ; but this 
unfortunately proves not to be the case ; so that the opposition 
