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NATURE NOTES 
now be exhibited in the Natural History Museum, and it could not be better 
explained than it is by Mr. Lydekker — probably our best living British mammal- 
ogist — in this Guide. The protective character of the apparently ou/ri colouring 
of zebras is dealt with. To the present writer it has long appeared puzzling 
that the Tertiary fossil Equidae should present so large a number of generic 
types in proportion to the number of species and individuals found, so that 
there are not many of those minutely graded variations which Darwinian evolu- 
tion requires. This difficulty is not dealt with in this Guide. 
Received: — Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, vol. iv., No. 14, 
1907 ; Bird Lore for November and December, 1907 ; The American Botanist 
for November, 1907 ; The Victorian Naturalist for December, 1907 ; and The 
Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, Knowledge, British Birds, The Animals' 
Friend, The Estate Magazine, The Agricultural Economist, and Progress for 
January, 1908. 
ASTRONOMICAL NOTES FOR FEBRUARY, 1908. 
Mercury will be well visible as an evening star during the period from about 
February 5 to 20. Near moon on morning of 3rd. 
Venus will be also visible in the evenings, setting on the 1st at 7.51 p.m., 
and 28th at 9.14 p.m. She may be observed about ij degrees north of Saturn 
on the loth at 8 p.m. On the afternoon of the 4th, Venus and the new moon 
will be about 4 degrees distant and form an interesting pair. 
Jupiter will be brightly visible during the whole night, and present a grand 
aspect for telescopic observation. He will be near the moon on the evening 
of the 15th. His position is in Cancer. 
Saturn will be perceptible after sunset at the beginning of the month ; but 
will have drawn too near to the sun for observation at the end. Near moon 
on 4th, and Venus on loth. 
An occultation of the star Zeta Tauri (Mag. 3) by the moon will occur on 
February 11, 12.22 p.m. to 1.19 p.m. 
Jupiter’s satellites, Ganymede and Callisto, will be seen with their shadows 
on the disc of Jupiter on the night of the 5th. 
W. F. D. 
SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES. 
[Note. — All Announcement.s with regard to Future Meetings ok 
THE Central .Society or Branches will be found together at the 
END OF these NOTICES.] 
New Members. — Cesitral Society. — The following members were elected 
at the last meeting of Council : Miss H. Bandulska, A.R.C.S. ; Miss Marian 
Butler ; J. H. Raymond de Jersey, Esq. ; Mrs. Almeric Fitzroy ; Dr. F. C. 
Knight ; Mrs. Knight ; Miss E. Maskell ; Miss M. Moon ; Mrs. F. Pierce ; 
Herbert W. Sothern, Esq.; Prof. G. Lyon Turner, M.A. ; Mrs. G. Lyon 
Turner ; Miss B. Waugh. 
Brighton Branch. — E. Hobhouse, Esq. 
Ealinz Branch. — Conrad Akerman, Esq., M.B. ; Herbert J. Baker, Esq. ; 
Dr. W. H. Baker ; Lt.-Col. A. G. Bartley, M.A. ; Miss R. M. Bevan-Brown : 
Stanley Box, Esq., M.D. ; Charles S. H. Coles, Esq. ; F. Martin Duncan, Esq. ; 
G. W. Edwards, Esq. : Wilfrid Farr, Esq. ; D. O. C. Finigan, Esq., M.D. ; 
J. Clifte P'orrester, Esq. ; Cyril E. A. Goddard, Esq. ; Lt.-Col. W. E. Gowan . 
Thomas W. Hall, Esq., M.R.C..S. ; H. O. Ince, Esq.; Col. Jameson; Dr. 
John B. Mason ; George E. Massee, Esq., F.L.S. ; Mrs. H. Meeres ; General 
T. W. Mercer; Mrs. T. W. Mercer; Col. A. Le Messurier ; Samuel J. Muir, 
Esq. ; Joseph G. Nicholls, Esq. ; .Miss Florence Norton ; Edward Pinhey, Esq. ; 
John F. Popham, Esq. ; Victor J. Prout, Esq. : J. W. P. Rawlins, Esq. ; Walter 
H. Read, Esq. ; Col. R. K. Ridgeway, V.C. ; D. A. Robertson, Esq. ; Miss E. 
Graham Robertson ; Miss Saunders ; Miss Helen Saunders : Dr. O. Cardew 
