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NATURE NOTES. 
SELBORNIANA. 
To Selbornians. — We think that Nature Notes would become more 
useful than it is if our readers w’ould take the trouble to keep us posted with 
information bearing upon subjects of special interest to Selbornians. For example, 
the management of Epping Forest and the endangering of the Highgate Woods 
are matters which interest us all, yet no communication regarding either has 
reached us. Nature Notes ought to be a storehouse of information upon 
subjects such as these ; but the Editor cannot himself supply it, and is thus 
dependent upon his correspondents. 
New Worcestersllire Records. — Mr. Charles Waterfall has kindly supplied 
me with specimens of Fnviaria parvijlora and Euphorbia Esula, var. Pseudo- 
cyparissias, recently gathered by him at Ripple. The latter he first met with at 
this station in 1893. Both are new county records. I may add that one plant of 
Euphorbia Esula (type) was found by the late Captain A. Stewart and myself, 
growing among corn at Bransford, Worcestershire, in 1892, but it was evidently 
an introduction with seed. 
Richard F. Towndrow. 
G-alitim sylvestre. Poll., in Worcestershire.— This plant was met 
with, in some plenty, in a pasture at Malvern Wells, during an excursion of the 
Malvern Field Club, on June 6. In The SlraugePs Guide to Worcester, by 
Ambrose Florence (Edwin Lees), 1828, it is included, under the name of Galium 
pusilltim, in “A Catalogue of Plants growing wild in the vicinity of Worcester,’' 
with the station “ East Side of Red Hill.” In Topographical Botany, 37 (Wor- 
cester) is bracketed with other counties as “ insufficiently vouched,” and Mr. 
Lees appears also to have doubted the authenticity of the record, as he omits 
any mention of the species in his Botany of MPrcestei shire, published in 1867. 
Richard F. Towndrow. 
Slaughtered for “Trimmings”? — Not a single house-martin has been 
seen this year round my house. A pair used to build under the thatch of an out- 
house in my grounds, and it was a constant pleasure to watch them dart in and 
out when tending their brood. Others must have had nests not far off. Where 
are they now ? I fear that either the severe weather, which was so universal last 
February, has destroyed them, or they have been slaughtered to make ‘ ‘ trimmings.” 
Of the two suppositions, I incline to the latter. One result probably will be that 
in the early autumn we shall be pestered with flies. 
Folkestone. A. L. Hussey. 
Annual Meeting of the Selborne Society.— That the Annual Meeting 
on May 29 was well attended we are in a position to testify, for, arriving not 
very long after the appointed hour, we were unable to obtain admission to the 
large hall, and were compelled to solace ourselves upstairs with an inspection of a 
very interesting collection of various editions of White’s Selborne, of which Mr. 
E. A. Martin had prepared a list, preliminary to the complete bibliography 
which is in course of compilation. But as no account of the meeting reached us 
until June 19, we are compelled to make our record brief. The chair was taken 
by the Earl of Stamford, and speeches were delivered by Dr. Dudley Buxton, Mr. 
J. L. Otter, Mrs. Brightwen, ^Ir. Charles Burt, and Prof. Boulger. The Annual 
Report, which is issued in full with the present number, was presented and 
adopted. We hope to print Mrs. Brightwen’s address, which was listened to 
with great attention, in our August issue. 
