IRatuve IRotes : 
tCbe Sdborne Society’s UDagasine. 
No. II2. APRIL, 1899. VoL. X. 
SELBORNIANA. 
So.METHiNG Done. — On March 6, Sir John Lubbock asked 
the Under Secretary for War whether the use of aigrettes in 
the Army had been abandoned, in accordance with the promise 
given last Session ; and Mr. Wyndham replied that a new 
plume, not made from the feathers of the egret, has been 
provided. 
The Hurst, the whole Hurst, and nothing but the 
Hurst. — We are glad to see that public opinion in Croydon seems 
to be roused in favour of the preservation of Crohamhurst from 
the builder. At a mass meeting on March 10 it was unanimously 
resolved; — (i) “ That this meeting is strongly in favour of the 
acquisition of the whole of Crohamhurst for the people for ever ; 
and pledges itself to use every endeavour to attain that object.” 
(2) “ That this meeting hopes that, if it is not within the power 
of the Whitgift Governors to present the Hurst as a free gift to 
the town, they will name such a moderate price for it as will 
enable the Croydon County Council to acquire it.” We announce 
on the last page of the present number a ramble, including the 
Hurst, under the auspices of the Croydon branch. 
The River Thames : its Preservation for Public Recrea- 
tion. — A Conference of representatives appointed by various 
national and local societies, interested in the preservation of 
the Thames and its valley for the public enjoyment, took place 
recently at the offices of the Commons Preservation Society. 
The organisations represented were : — The Commons Preser- 
vation Society and its Committees for Kent and Surrey, and 
Middlesex, Herts and Bucks ; the Berks, South Oxon and North 
Hants Society; The National Footpath Preservation Society; 
and the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural 
Beauty. The Right Hon. G. J. Shaw-Lefevre presided. 
