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NATURE NOTES 
September 2. — Leave Leatherhead Station (S.W.R.) at 3.30 for Fetcham 
Mill, Norbury Park, and Mickleham Valley. Distance 5 miles. Trains leave 
London Bridge (L.B.S.C.R.) 2.0 and Waterloo (S.W.R.) at 2.40. Cheap return 
tickets, IS. pd. Guide, Mr. A. B. Wilkinson. 
NEWS FROM THE BRANCHES. 
Clapton. — On June 17, at the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Gerish, 
the members of this branch visited Haileybury College (by the kind jjermission 
of the Hon. and Rev. Ed. Lyttleton, M.A.), and after inspecting the various 
departments returned by a pleasant walk to Ivy Lodge, Hoddesdon, where the 
host and hostess very kindly entertained the party at tea. After tea Mr. Gerish 
read a very interesting paper upon Haileybury and its College. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Rev. A. H. Courtbope. — Vida gemella, Crantz., the Smooth Tare. 
E. M. Beechey. — The pupa (chrysalis) of Abraxas grossulariata, the 
Magpie or Currant Moth. 
H. Peyton. — I. Plagiochilaasplenioides,\Jinditvih. 2. Mnium undulatum, 
L. 3. Thamnitim alopecurum, Br. et Sch. 4. Scapania nemorosa, Dumort. 
5. Agrimonia Eupatoria, L. 
W. A. Dutt. — I. Phalaris paradoxa, L. , a Mediterranean species. 2. 
Lolittm italicum, A. Br. 3. Medicago sativa, L. ? 
T. O. Hirst. — I. There is no good complete work on British Hepaticae. 
The French “ Hepaticologia Gallica,” by T. Husnot, published by F. Savy, 
10 fr. 50c., and “ Nouvelle Flore des Mousses et des Hepatiques,” by J. Douin, 
published by Paul Dupont, 5 fr., are most useful. A complete work, “ Hepaticte 
of the British Isles,” by W. H. Pearson, is in course of publication by Messrs. 
Lovell Reeve, in twenty-eight monthly parts at 5s. each, or 7s. 6d. coloured. 
2. The Students’ Handbook of British Mosses by H. N. Dixon and H. G. 
Jameson (Wheldon), price 18s. 6d., and the more costly “ British Moss-Flora,” 
by Dr. Braithwaite. — 3. F. Walker, Insecta Brltannica, Diptera, 3 vols., 
1851-6; G. II. Verrall, List of British Diptera, 1888; F. V. Theobald, 
British Flies, vol. i. (all yet published), 1892; and, though not British, J. R. 
Schiner, Diptera Austriaca, Vienna, 1861. 
D. A. H. (Barmouth). Diauthtts deltoides. 
Mary Barne. — The young bird was probably a hawfinch ; but was the 
nair really 3J inches long ? 
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