IFlature IHotes : 
tube Selborne Society’s aDaoasine 
No. 113. 
]\IAY, 1899. 
VoL. X. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Annual Meeting and Conversazione. — The conversazione 
will take place, as previously announced, on Wednesday, May 
31, from 8 to 10.30, at the Society’s rooms, 20, Hanover Square, 
W. The Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock will give the Presi- 
dential Address, and will be supported by the Earl of Stamford, 
Professor Boulger, the Right Hon. James Bryce, M.P., Rev. 
Professor Henslow, F.R.S., Professor Hulme, Mr. John L. 
Otter and others. After the meeting a splendid selection of 
lantern slides will be shown, under the supervision of Mr. H. W. 
Ravenshaw, with descriptive talks by Mr. R. Kearton — whose 
book “Wild Nature with a Camera” is so well known to 
members of the Selborne Society — Mr. Graham Renshaw, Pro- 
fessor Boulger, and other members. There will also be an 
exhibition of birds’ nests, paintings, microscopic objects, curios, 
&c. Branch Secretaries are requested to send in their applica- 
tions for tickets of admission for members of the Society and 
their friends to the Secretary, 20, Hanover Square, W., if 
possible not later than May 20. Members requiring tickets 
should apply to the local hon. secretary, or, in the case of 
members unattached to branches, to the Secretary of the Selborne 
Society, 20, Hanover Square. A stamped addressed envelope 
should in each case accompany the application. It is particu- 
larly requested that those intending to be present will fill in their 
names on the ticket in the blank space provided for the purpose, 
and also that honorary secretaries of branches who attend will 
take steps to make themselves known to the Secretary or mem- 
bers of the Council. 
Selbornian Matters in the Press. — It is certainly a 
matter for congratulation that almost the entire press seems to 
be strongly sympathetic towards true Selbornian principles. 
We make no invidious distinctions ; but the Standard is certainly 
