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NATURE NOTES 
here. There are here, moreover, inslructions in the art by which such pictures 
can be produced. Unfortunately the pictures outrun the text and some never get 
described at all. We should, for instance, have been glad to learn what is meant 
by the title “Hybrid Lime tree - ’ applied to one of the illustrations. Mr. 
Westell — very rightly, as we think — does not confine the term “ Natural History ” 
to the Animal Kingdom. 
Reading and its Surroundings. Homeland Association. Price is. net. 
With an ordnance map of the country from four to six miles round, many good 
illustrations, and two hundred pages of letterpress, this “ Homeland Handbook,” 
which has been adopted as their “ Official Guide ”by the Corporation of Reading, 
is an excellent and cheap example of the series to which it belongs. Silchester 
and the magnificent collection of Roman remains in the Reading Museum, and 
Miss Mitford and Three-Mile Cross are, of course, prominent topics. We are 
rather surprised, however, to find no picture of Southcot Manor, the headquarters 
of Essex during the siege, and no mention of Mr. George Simonds, the Reading- 
born artist of several of the local monuments, or of the fossil oysters at Bob’s 
Mount, which are stated, on an old map, to be the shells of those eaten by the 
Danes during the warfare with them in the days of Alfred. 
A Crystal Age. By W. H. Hudson. Second Edition. T. Fisher Unwin. 
Price 6s. 
Mr. Hudson was first recognised as a born naturalist and observer, and has 
since been acknowledged as a master of style. That this work has gone into a 
new edition is some faint index of its real value. 
Lantern-Slide Making and Exhibiting. By 1 ohn A. Hodges, F.R.P.S. 
“ Focus,” Photographic Manuals. Price 6d. net. 
This is a thoroughly practical little book by one who knows what he is 
writing about. 
Received : Erkldrung der Gravitation , der Molekularkrafte , der War me, des 
Lichtes, der Magnetischen and Eleklrischen Erscheinungen, von Dr. Johann 
Sahulka ; Board of Agriculture and Fisheries — Leaflet No. 167, Ducks and Duck- 
Breeding ; No. 168, Hints on the Formation of Permanent Pastures; No. 1 74, 
Tree Root-rot ( Armil/aria mellea) ; No. 175, The Use of Waste Organic Substances 
as Manure : Bird Notes and News, Vol. 2, No. 3 ; The Plant World for August ; 
The Nature-Study Review and The American Botanist for September ; and 
Knowledge, The Museum Gazette, The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, The 
Animals' Friend, Lite Animal World, The Agricultural Economist, and The 
Estate Magazine for October. 
SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES. 
[Note.— All Announcements with regard to Future Meetings of 
the Central Society or Branches will be found together at the 
end of these Notices.] 
Until further notice all editorial communications must be sent to Wilfred 
Mark Webb, Odstock, Hanwell, London, W. 
New Members.— 
Ealing Branch. — G. W. Pearce, Esq. 
Hampstead Branch. — Mrs. Walter Bentley. 
Library. — The Honorary Librarian will attend at 20^ Hanover Square, 
rom 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m., on the evenings of November 19 and December 17, for 
the purpose of issuing books to members. 
Nature Study Prize. — A prize of half a guinea will be given for the best 
collection of twenty autumn fruits (properly mounted and accompanied by a 
description indicating what points of interest the specimens illustrate) sent in to the 
