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NATURE NOTES 
to the general funds of the Society, which was considered at a special 
general meeting, was eventually withdrawn in deference to the wishes of 
the committee of some of the larger branches. 
For further details of the work of the branches, and of the general 
work of the Society, the members are referred to the pages of the 
magazine. 
SELBORNIANA. 
The President’s Address, the Report of the Field Club Com- 
mittee, the Report of the Annual Meeting, and the list of the 
newly elected officers for the year will appear in our next 
number. 
Proposed Publication of Gilbert White’s Naturalist’s 
Calendar. — Our Treasurer, Mr. J. L. Otter, proposes, if a 
sufficient number of members subscribe, to print the diaries 
kept by Gilbert White from January, 1768, till his death in 
June, 1793, from the manuscript now in the British Museum. 
These diaries record daily observations of the thermometer and 
barometer, the first appearances of leaves, flowers, birds and 
insects, and many extraneous matters, only part of which 
entered into “The Natural History of Selborne.” The work 
will form two large quarto volumes of about 700 pages each, 
and will be published at £7. 2s. net ; but Mr. Otter proposes 
to offer it to members of the Society sending in their names 
beforehand at cost price, viz., 30s. A circular, with a specimen 
page, will be issued shortly. 
Postal Photographic Club. — Some members of the 
Avicultural Society are organising a Postal Club for the en- 
couragement of bird and animal photography. The co-opera- 
tion of photographer naturalists is invited. Address, Chas. 
Louis Hett, Hon. Sec. pro. tern., Springfield, Brigg. 
“ Hawk ” in the City. — We have reason to believe that the 
story of a “ hawk ” seizing a pigeon in Guildhall Yard, to which 
we recently gave currency, has no foundation in fact. 
