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NATURE NOTES 
FORTHCOMING- SELBORNE SATURDAY AFTERNOONS. 
April 9. — By kind permission of the Duke of Sutherland, Selbornians will be 
permitted to view Stafford House, St. James's, S.W., at 3 p.m. Members to 
assemble at the main door in Stable Yard, St. James’s Palace, at 2.30. The visit 
will be for Members only. 
FIELD CLUB RAMBLES. 
April 16. — Short forest ramble near Chingford. Train leaves Liverpool Street 
2.34 p.m. ; take cheap day return tickets, is. Guide, Mr. R. Marshman Wattson. 
April 23. — Chipstead to Woodmansterne by fields, returning from Coulsdon. 
Take return tickets to Chipstead, S.E.R., Charing Cross, 2.6, London Bridge, 
2.15; change at Purley. Guide, Mr. Matthew Hunt. 
April 30. — Northwood, Middlesex. Trains leave Baker Street (Metropolitan 
Railway) at 2.10 and 2.20, Swiss Cottage 2.6, and Finchley Road 2.16. (Please 
note if alterations in April.) Take return tickets to Northwood. Tea at Ye 
Olde Greene Manne, Batchworth Heath. Guide, Mr. James E. Whiting. 
May 7. — Farthing Down, Olive Lane, Broadmoor Green, Coulsdon Common. 
Tea at The Fox. Return by Kenley Common and Cateiham Yalley to Purley. 
Take return tickets to Coulsdon — Cannon Street 2.16, London Bridge (S.E.R.) 
2.20, East Croydon 2.43, Victoria (L.B.S.C.R.) i-33i Stoats Nest 2.31. Walk 
thence to Coulsdon Station, where meet at 3. Guide, Mr. E. A. Martin. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
J. K. B . — Neclria cinnabarina, one of the Pyrenomycetes. 
Sylvia Stevenson. — Put some sand and pebbles at the bottom of your 
aquarium and plant in it some water starwort, the green rosettes of leaves of 
which you will find on most ponds and pools. Float a little duckweed on the 
surface ; it makes a useful screen for the animals. If you can, get a plant of 
Vallisneria, which is not British, from a dealer and plant it in the sand before 
filling your aquarium. By all means get a few water-snails, a small piece of 
frog’s spawn, not as large as an egg, and some .stickle- backs. If you have some 
newts — or even with snails — it is better to have a piece of perforated zinc over 
the aquarium, and it should not have a strong light shining through its sides. If 
you keep water-plants, snails, tadpoles and stickle-backs, you will not require to 
provide much food besides, though I believe gold-fish like a few crumbs of 
bread occasionally. Some books which would help you were mentioned on 
p. 60 in our last number. 
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