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NATURE NOTES 
September lo. — Dorking and Ranmore Common. Trains leave London Bridge, 
1.53 and 2.0; Tulse Hill, 2.12; Streatham, 2. 17; Victoria, 12.55; Claphain 
Junction, 1.2. Take cheap return tickets to Bo.x Hill Station (meet in the Book- 
ing Office at 3.10 p.m.). London Bridge and Victoria, 2s. 3d. ; Clapham Junc- 
tion, 2s. ; Tulse Hill, is. lod. ; Streatham, is. 8d. Tea at Ranmoor Common. 
Return trains leave Box Hill for London Bridge 7.22, and Victoria 7.32. Guide, 
Mr. A. B. Wilkinson. 
September l "]. — Oxshott to Stoke d’Abernon and Cobham. Waterloo, 2.15 
train. Take cheap return tickets to Cobham and Stoke d’Abernon. Meet at 
Oxshott Station at 3 p.m. Guide, Prof. Boulger. 
September 24. — Autumn Ramble in Epping Forest. Trains leave Liverpool 
Street, 2.8; Gospel Oak, 2.4. Take return tickets to Chingford, is. in each 
case. Guide, Mr. L. Douglas Wilson. 
October i. — Coulsdon. Charing Cross (S.E.R.)2.6; Cannon Street, 2.16; 
London Bridge, 2.20. Meet at Coul.sdon Station, 2.57. Passengers from Charing 
Cross change at Purley. Cheap day tickets, subject to Railway Company’s altera- 
tions for October. Guide, Mr. Matthew Hunt. 
The times of all trains should be verified by comparison with the September 
time-tables. 
The ramble on October i will bring the Field Club Rambles for 1904 to a 
close ; but the Secretary hopes to make arrangements, as in former years, for 
Selbornians to join in the Fungus Foray of the Essex Field Club in October. 
Further particulars in Nature Notes foi October. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
S. P. Hawes. — I could find no disease in the flowers of the Tropieolum, 
and the root when planted did not live. If this be a case of hereditary malforma- 
tion it would be interesting and, for that reason only, worth growing again from 
seed. 
P. F. K. — You apparently refer to Mr. Kearton’s “ With Nature and a 
Camera” (Cassell’s), price 21s., which deals partly with bird-life in the Saltee 
Islands. 
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