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Mature Motes : 
ttbe Selborne Society’s flI>aoa3me. 
No. 193. JANUARY, 1906. Vol. XVII. 
EDITORIAL. 
HE Council are most desirous that the Magazine, whilst 
remaining in every sense the organ of the Society, 
should appeal to the general public, and thus serve to 
enlist new recruits for our work. Some slight altera- 
tion has accordingly been made, as our readers will perceive, in 
the order in which our contents are arranged ; but we wish also 
to introduce some changes in the matter of those contents, in 
accordance with suggestions kindly made to us. For the benefit 
of the tyro we hope to have a series of short articles giving 
simple directions as to the collection, preservation, identification 
and study of the various groups of plants and animals. Short 
tours in our Natural History Museums and public gardens will 
also be described. There are, we know, many Members of the 
Society who have made special study of the different sub- 
divisions of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms, and are fully 
competent to instruct their fellow-members in the subjects of 
these studies ; and we appeal to them to help us in this matter 
by contributing short articles of the kind above-mentioned. 
It is especially desirable also that the conductors of our field 
rambles or other excursions should send, well in advance, some 
suggestion as to what is likely to be seen by those present on 
these occasions, whether of Natural History or of archaeological 
interest. The tastes of our Members are undoubtedly varied , 
but they must remember that the making of converts to their 
own particular hobbies must depend largely upon their own co- 
operation with the Editor in proving the attractiveness of those 
pursuits. 
