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Mature Motes : 
tTbe Selbocite Society's fll>aoa3ine. 
No. 197. MAY, 1906. Vol. XVII. 
ANNUAL MEETING AND CONVERSAZIONE. 
||HE Annual Business Meeting will be held at 20, 
Hanover Square, on May 30, at 8 p.m. 
The Annual Conversazione has been fixed for May 
25, and will be held at the Offices of the Civil Service 
Commission. Lord Avebury will preside and give his address, 
while there will be, as usual, an exhibition, and a lecture. The 
Secretary will be glad of any help with regard to exhibits of 
microscopes and of objects of Natural History and antiquarian 
interest. Any Members who could take part in arranging the 
exhibits on the previous night, or who would act as stewards on 
the evening in question, should communicate with him. The 
regulations with regard to tickets are given on p. 99. 
MAY. 
|T is difficult to imagine anything more beautiful than our 
English woodlands, just at the time when the oaks 
are bursting into leaf and the hyacinths into bloom. 
The young foliage of elm, birch, maple and bramble 
is lovely to look upon in its early perfection, marred, as yet, 
neither by inserts nor boisterous winds, and various other trees 
and bushes putting on their dainty spring apparel, furnish a 
great variety of delicious transparent tints. The hawthorn, 
unsurpassed by anything else as to the colour of its tender 
young leaves, has, alas ! already lost its early purity, and its 
lovely liquid green has begun to wax darker, duller and more 
opaque. The glowing emerald hue, in which the larch is arrayed 
on its first start into life and growth, is also passing into a more 
sober green. But who shall essay to describe the exquisite 
creamy tints of the young oak leaves, from the first unfolding 
