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tCbe Selborne Society’s nDagasftie. 
No. 120. DECEMBER, 1899. Vol. X. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Our Future. — With the present number we complete the 
tenth year of our existence as a Magazine ; so, while gratefully 
mindful of what we have been able to do in the past, we may 
well consider what lies before the Selborne Society in the 
immediate future. Firstly, we are not yet out of debt. 
Secondly, we require many more members in order to carry 
out our objects effectually. Thirdly, our branches are very im- 
perfectly distributed over the kingdom. Fourthly, the young 
should be more generally enlisted in our cause, whether by the 
formation of junior branches or by other means. Fifthly, it is 
desirable to bring the members — or at least those that can get to 
London — together more than once a year. It was very dis- 
couraging to the Council that the effort which they made in this 
direction by securing the kind assistance of Professor Henslow, 
on the 2ist ult., was so weakly supported by the members of the 
Society, very few of whom came to hear the most interesting 
lecture on “ Plants and their Surroundings,” which he gave on 
that evening. Unless more attend at the succeeding lectures 
of the series the experiment must be abandoned. Sixthly, the 
Editor would like to see the Magazine enlarged and not alto- 
gether dependent for its illustrations, as at present, on the kind 
liberality of the publishers of works under review. As in- 
dicative of the widest conception of our educational scope, 
our readers will be glad to learn that in our next number 
Professor Henslow will begin a series of papers on “ How 
Scenery is made.” 
Illustrations to White’s “ Selborne.” — Mr. Edmund 
H. New writes : — “ In connection with Mr. E. A. Martin’s 
article in your last number, will you kindly allow me to point 
