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this season. Just sixty persons assembled to support liim, including ten or a 
dozen members of the Fulham Field Club, to whom a cordial welcome was given. 
While the rain kept off, the weather was anything but promising, and sodden 
was the soil and vegetation if you deviated a yard front the path. Tlie approaches 
to some of the stiles were particularly difficult in consequence. The way lay 
across the fields to Eastcote, whence it h.id been proposed to proceed through the 
woods to Ruislip, but as this path was pronounced impassable, the road had to be 
followed, adding considerably to the distance. 
Recent rains seemed to have beighteneil the luxuriance and profuseness of 
Nature’s belonging.s, and though they often hung invitingly on hedge, or studded 
bank and ditch, the extreme wetness of their surroundings prevented a very close 
inspection. The avian choir was fully represented, and if its members sang all 
together, Mr. Whiting's practised ear soon unwove the tangled skein of songs. 
Ruislip Church, to which a visit was made, excited the Selbornian’s anti- 
quarian interest. It is a structure of flint, chalk and stone, in the decorated 
style, with an embattled tower (in which are hung eight bells) and a nave of six 
bays. In the edifice are numerous stained glass windows, two piscinx, a brass 
with effigies of the year 1593, and marble monuments dating from the middle of 
the nineteenth century The oldest Register is the baptismal one, going back to 
1689. By a bequest of 1802, a fee of £2 25. is payable to the Vicar if he preaches 
on Good Friday ; and by the gift of one Jeremiah Bright, in 1697, 2 s. is devoted 
weekly to the purchase of bread which is distributed to the poor on Sunday 
morning. The loaves for the following day were waiting in the church when the 
Selbornians visited it. •. 
A stay of an hour or so was made at Ruislip for lea, on the conclusion of which 
Professor J. Logan Lobley, h'.G.S., delivered an address of singular interest upon 
the geology of the district, and upon the lessons to be learned from the study of 
the science generally. Particularly did he insist upon its great educational value, 
though unfortunal-ely in many c.rses little attention was paid to its teaching. The 
party afterwards returned to Northwood station. 
yune — In delightful weather over twenty Selbornians met at Woldingham 
station and made their way by field-paths and lanes to Bull Green, Chelsham. 
On the way, while skirting a beech- wood, some of the party watched with great 
interest a bird feeding its young, whose heads popped out of a hole in the trunk 
of a tree about twenty feet above the road. Many flowers were found, among 
which may be noted the birds’ nest orchis and the helleborine. After tea the 
party strolled to Upper Warlingham, listening with great pleasure to the singing 
of numerous nightingales. It was a truly delightful ramble, such as are all those 
we are privileged to make in this beautiful district. 
yune II. — Thirty-seven members of the Society took part in the ramble round 
Broxbourne and Hoddesdon, under the direction of Dr. and Mrs. S. H. Apple- 
ford, who filled the double rSk of guides and hosts upon this very pleasant 
occasion. 
Some parts of the district are remarkable for nurseries, and it was through one 
of these coloursome places that the Selbornians were first taken. In the wood 
beyond red campions seemed to grow in masses, and the prevalence of the 
flower on bank and in hedgerow was a noteworthy feature of the afternoon. An 
enormous hornbeam in the same wood, pollarded in days past, also engaged the 
visitors’ attention. Near by was a beech avenue, where the trees joined branches 
overhead, disclosing a lovely peep. 
By permission of the owner, a London banker, a path was followed through 
his park, in which are some very fine specimens of timber, especially of oak, 
elm and chestnut, which are allowed the natural development denied to them in 
London and suburbs, where the trees, often without apparent reason, undergo 
such mutilation as to leave them but caricatures of what they would otherwise be. 
Through the heart of the woodlands the party proceeded, meeting no one and 
hearing little save their own voices and birds which broke into song now and 
again. Though within half an hour’s run from Liverpool Street, it was the country 
pure and undefiled. -A portion of what is known as the Roman Road was next 
traversed, but there would appear to be no warranty for the title, since in former 
days the track was known as the London Way. 
The residence of the Selbornians’ generous hosts. Dr. and Mrs. Appleford, 
