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NATURE NOTES 
as President, intends to bring it to a successful issue during the 
coming summer. Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb also visited the 
Nature Study Exhibition held by the Bath and West of England 
Society in connection with its great show at Nottingham, and 
contributed an article on the subject to the Morning Leader, 
which at the request of the Bath and West Society has been 
reprinted in its annual journal. Mr. Webb also gave the vale- 
dictory address, which brought to a close the Nature Study 
Course at the Swanley Horticultural College, and discussed the 
connection of Nature Study and the School Museum, in a 
paper read before the assembled teachers of Surrey at the 
Educational Conference last July. 
The South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies.— The Selborne 
Society was represented at the Reigate Congress by Mr. J. L. 
Otter (the Treasurer) and by the Secretary. Professor Boulger 
made a report on the replies received in answer to the circular 
previously sent out with regard to plant protection. The ques- 
tion of obtaining reduced fares from the railway companies 
for members of scientific societies was one which occupied the 
serious attention of the delegates. 
The Field Club. — The summer excursions of the Society have 
always been looked upon as one of the most important means of 
encouraging the study of natural history. Twenty-two rambles 
were arranged and twenty-one of them carried out successfully. 
The average attendance was slightly larger than last year, being 
thirty-two, as against twenty-eight. The success of the rambles 
during the last six seasons has been almost entirely due to the 
efforts of Mrs. Percy Myles, who has acted as Hon. Secretary 
of the Field Club since March, 1899. It was with great regret 
that the Council received the resignation of Mrs. Myles owing 
to her being physically unable any longer to continue the work ; 
but as she has accepted the Chairmanship of the new Excursions 
Committee, the Society will still have the benefit of her experi- 
ence. The thanks of the Society are due not only to Mrs. Myles 
for her most valuable services, but also to Mr. Poole, who has 
assisted her during the last two years, and to those gentlemen 
who are good enough to act as conductors at the meetings, of 
which a list is here given. 
Selborne Field Club Meetings, 1905. 
Date. Place. Guide. No. of Mem- 
bers present. 
April 29 Chipstead ... ... Mr. Matthew Hunt ... ... ... 22 
(Chipstead and Howe Gieen) 
May 6 Rickmansworth ... Messrs. C. M. Hailes & Geo. Avenell 84 
(Moor Park and Batchworth Heath) 
13 Leatherhead... ... Mr. A. B. Wilkinson ... ... 27 
(Leatherhead and Mickleham) 
20 Bickley ... ... Mr. C. M. Miihlberg ... ... 25 
(Roundabout Wood and Cliislehurst Common) 
27 Potter’s Bar . . ... Mr. E. A. Nash ... ... ... 37 
(North and South Minims) 
