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NATURE NOTES 
and-seek, has not shown itself for months. Were the identity 
of that beetle to be demanded of him he might find it a problem 
as difficult to answer as the last survivor of the Nancy Bell in 
the “ Bab Ballads.” S. D. W. 
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
Prehistoric Tombstones. 
“ F. G. S.” is quite right : I referred to the Agglestone, near 
Studland, and now beg to thank him, and others, for calling 
attention to the error. On the only occasion when I might have 
examined this sarsen I was driven back by heavy rain. Misled 
by some guide-book or other, and connecting the Agglestone 
with other holy- stones, frequently menhirs, I was led to quote 
this block as an instance. Sarsens may, of course, be set up 
as menhirs, but the Agglestone, not being detached from the 
underlying rock, cannot be of this nature. 
W alter Johnson. 
Selborne Rambles. 
Will you permit me to make a suggestion to guide the 
guides of the Selborne Society ? I think they should remem- 
ber, in the first place, that the Society is a Natural History 
Society. It is not a Society for the purpose of learning to 
walk at a good speed for two or three hours without stopping. 
I have sometimes heard it remarked that our walks are more of 
scrambles than rambles. There are, fortunately, some of our 
members who endeavour to check that propensity. 
The Selborne Society is a Natural History Society, and to 
some of its members the greatest of its pleasures is to learn 
something, however small it may be, every time that they go 
out. It may be a- little fact in botany, or ascertaining the 
habitat, peculiarities and changes of some common insect, or, 
it may be the acquiring the knowledge of the note of some bird, 
especially our migratory birds, with whose notes some of us, 
especially those of us w T ho do not live entirely in the country, are 
not so familiar. 
Another thing I should like to impress on those w r ho are 
responsible for the arrangements is that the longest portion of 
the walk should, whenever possible, be taken after tea. After 
a short walk, not exceeding three miles, before tea, one enjoys 
the tea, is renovated by it, and is enabled to take a good long 
walk afterwards. On the other hand, if an exhausting walk 
is taken of six or seven miles before tea, as is sometimes done, 
there is no enjoyment in the tea, and it does not renovate and 
enable people to enjoy the walk alter tea. Of course, in the 
autumn, in consequence of the short days, the walks have to be 
taken before tea in order to get light, but then they ought to be 
somewhat curtailed, but there is no necessity for this in the 
months of May, June and July. 
Hampstead, May 21, 1906. 
Peter Hastie. 
