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No. i8o. DECEMBER, 1904. Vol. XV. 
OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
To promote the study of Natural History. To preserve from 
needless destruction such wild animals and plants as are harm- 
less, beautiful, or rare. To discourage the wearing and use for 
ornament of: (i) The skins and furs of such animals as are 
in danger of being exterminated ; (2) the skins and plumage 
of such birds as are not domesticated. To protect places and 
objects of natural beauty or antiquarian interest from ill- 
treatment or destruction. To afford facilities for combined effort 
in promoting any of the above or kindred objects. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Proposed Tulse Hill and Streatham Branch. — It has 
been suggested that a Branch of the Society should be formed 
for Tulse Hill and Streatham. A meeting to consider the 
matter will be held in January, the place and exact date of 
which will be announced later. Meanwhile, Mr. Arthur B. 
Wilkinson, of Newlands, Northstead Road, Tulse Hill, will be 
glad to receive the names of any who would be willing to join 
such a Branch. 
Gilbert White and the Selborne Society. — On 
November 15 the Editor of Nature Notes was the guest of 
the Horticultural Club, and, after dinner, addressed the 
members, at their request, on the subject of Gilbert White 
and the Selborne Society. After briefly sketching the life 
and character of the Selborne naturalist, and alluding more 
particularly to his long-kept Garden Diary, and his apparent 
fondness for double flowers, the lecturer passed to the history 
of the foundation of the Selborne Society to perpetuate the 
