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successfully protected, may appear in the near future in Nature 
Notes. 
IV. — The Protection of Plants. 
The feeling that it is necessary that something should be 
done to check the extermination of our rarer and more beautiful 
plants has spread from Devonshire to other counties. Con- 
siderable interest in the matter has been evinced in the Press, 
and it would appear that there is likely to be some legislation in 
connection with this question. Your Council sent to all the 
County and Borough Councils a letter enclosing a reprint of the 
two papers upon this subject which appeared in Nature Notes, 
by Professor Boulger and Mr. E. A. Martin respectively, and 
received several very sympathetic letters in reply to this 
circular. 
V. — Places of Antiquarian Interest and Natural Beauty. 
Hampstead Heath : Proposed Extension. — An outline 
of the scheme was given in Nature Notes for July, 1903. As 
was then mentioned, it is sought by the Hampstead Heath Ex- 
tension Council to acquire of the Eton College trustees some 
eighty acres of land, comprising in effect meadows to the north- 
west of the Heath and immediately overlooked by it, for the 
purpose of forming a green fringe or buffer between the Heath 
and the houses which are confidently expected to be built on 
the completion of the Tube Railway to this part. The point, 
therefore, to be decided is whether the immediate prospect is 
to be over green fields or back gardens of houses, probably of 
none too attractive an appearance. Of the ^48,000 required 
for the purchase, ;^33,ooo has been paid or promised, and 
appeals have now been made to the Metropolitan Borough 
Councils north of the Thames for pecuniary aid. With the 
movement for purchase the Selborne Society has been identified, 
since several of its members have seats upon the Extension 
Council, and have attended special meetings called to promote 
the scheme. 
The Pryors. — This small yet well-wooded estate, situated 
upon the East Heath, a year or two ago fell into the hands of 
the builder, to the regret of all lovers of the picturesque. Part 
of the site has already been utilised for the erection of flats, the 
huge blocks of which are a sad scar upon the landscape. As the 
buildings could not be removed, the local branch of the Selborne 
Society approached the London County Council with a recom- 
mendation that a number of quick-growing trees should be 
planted near these fiats so as to form some kind of screen 
or foil to their ugliness. The Society’s recommendation was 
favourably entertained by the Parks Committee, some members 
of which at once visited the spot to judge of the fpiestion for 
themselves, and it was not long before two or three dozen trees 
were put in, which, it is hoped, as they grow and develop thick 
