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NATURE NOTES 
Mr. Fred. Enock, F.L.S., F.E.S., followed with a description 
of the life-history of the Tiger Beetle, illustrated by coloured 
drawings which, depicted as they were with all the lecturer’s 
well known accuracy and skill, enabled the members present to 
appreciate to the full the clear and instructive description of the 
various stages of this wonderful little beetle. 
During the evening a series of slides illustrating the Vanish- 
ing African Fauna was shown by Dr. Graham Renshaw, of 
Manchester. The series included photographs of the eland, the 
kudu, the Cape hartebeest, the almost extinct bontebok, and 
the beisa antelope, which may have given rise to the fable of 
the unicorn. The differences between Burchell’s zebra, common 
in menageries, and the mountain zebra were also demonstrated. 
The photograph of a living quagga was of special interest, as 
the animal is now wholly extinct. 
It should also be mentioned that Mr. Enock very kindly 
undertook, in addition to his own demonstration, the supervision 
of the lantern during the whole evening, in the unavoidable 
absence of Mr. Ravenshaw. 
On the first-floor, microscopes were exhibited by members 
of the Quekett and Royal Microscopical Societies, and a series 
of pictures and objects of interest kindly lent by Messrs. G. 
Renshaw, J. E. Cooper, A. W. Dennis, A. E. Hilton, Ernest 
Hinton, J. F. Holder and A. H. Macpherson, Miss Spiers, 
Miss Charlotte Spiers, Mr. C Turnerly and others. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Our Contemporaries. — We have previously had occasion 
to remark on the many healthy signs of the attitude of the 
general press on Selbornian matters. The Contemporary Review 
for May had an interesting “ Plea for Wild Animals,” by W. J. 
Stillman. The Outlook for June lo had a charming appreciation 
of Gilbert White from the pen of P. Anderson Graham. The 
Daily News of May 13 contained an article on “ Birds in the 
fruit garden, their services and their wages.” The following is 
from a review of “The Records of Sheflield ” in the Atheneeum 
for May 20 : — 
“ II was much to the credit of the Sheflield burgesses that in the middle of 
the last century, when even good men took .so little heed of the sufferings of the 
lower animals, they were earnest in their endeavours to suppre.ss the cruel sport 
of cock-throwing, which had been from time immemorial a popular diversion on 
.Shrove Tuesday. It is not easy to account for the callousness of men until quite 
modern days as to the sufferings of the brutes. The best of us are but a very 
little in advance of our own time. It is alleged, on what seems good authority, 
that Sir Thom.as More w.xs skilful in this revolting pastime. In 1752 these 
[Sheffield] accounts contain an entry of 5s. jiaid for dispersing handbills con- 
demning the sport, and five years after 14s. 6d. was paid to the ‘cricket players 
on .Shrove Tuesday lo entertain the populace and prevent the infamous practice 
