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deepens under the influence of light and warmth, and as the two edges of the 
valve dry they draw together, beginning sometimes at one end, sometimes at 
both, and the seeds are squeezed out one by one with an audible click and 
expelled to a considerable distance. I may add that Mr. Bunyard omits to refer 
to the genus Vto/a in the second section of his article. 
C. Nicholson. 
608 . Wild Herbs. — My inquiry respecting wild herbs was not so much in 
reference to their cultivation in towns as to the possibility of their being sub- 
stituted for garden ones for culinary purposes. Our Downs near Brighton are 
carpeted in places by wild thyme, whilst marjoram grows in equal luxuriance in 
adjacent lanes and roadsides. The dust of motors does not reach these tracks 
across the hills, as it does in gardens by the high road, whose owners complain 
bitterly of the injury to vegetation. I venture to differ from your correspondent 
in the last number of Nalure Notes, who objects to “herbs being dried in the 
sun.” I have always found it a good way, laying them in the sunshine on open 
paper trays, which should be taken in before the dew falls. Mine have kept for 
)ears dried in this way, in glass bottles, without loss of flavour. 
9, Park Crescent, Brighton. E. M. Nicholson. 
February j. 
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.] 
New Members. — The following members'were elected at a Council Meet- 
ing held on [anuary 28. Central Society. — Henry Budge, Esq. ; Miss E. L. 
Boys ; ]. R. Bentley, Esq., M.B. ; K. Kimber Bull, Esq. ; Miss Mary Carson; 
,S. Davey, Esq. ; F. H. Keeble, Esq. ; T. Hamilton-Adams, Esq. : Miss L. R. B. 
I.ascelles : \V. Gurnell, Esq. ; C. H. Marlin, Esq.; The Rev. S. Le Messurier ; 
Mrs. A. Nash ; Mrs. Patteson ; The Rev. Gurney Richards ; Miss K. Sydney ; 
E. M. Waugh, Esq. ; C. A. West, Esq. ; W. Lifton Wynne, Esq. 
Brent Valley and Richmond Branch. — Francis T. Adamson, Esq.; The Rev. 
Rrownlow Atlay, M.A. ; Mrs. Bedford ; Mrs. Horace Bell ; Frank Challis, Esq. ; 
P". I. O. ; Colonel H. W. H. Cox ; W. G. Cummings, Esq. ; Major-General W. T. 
Corrie ; Norman Farr, Esq. ; .Miss B. Grylls ; Reginald Morton, Esq., M.D. ; 
C. E. Phipps. Esq. ; Captain H. Wallace Ronaldson, V.D. ; P'rank Simpson, 
Esq. ; Mrs. White. 
The following were elected at a Council Meeting held on Thursday, 
P'ebruary 20. Central Society. — Herbert E. Ash, Esq. ; C. If. Bentham, Esq. ; 
Miss Wilmot Buxton ; C. F. Colyer, Esq. ; Miss D. Eastwood ; Miss E. J. 
Fenwick ; Thomas Fisher, Esq. ; E. W. Hickman, Esq. ; George E. Maillard, 
Plsq. ; The Malvern Field Club ; J. H. Parry, Esq. ; Miss Amy Seymour ; E. P. 
Squarey, Esq. 
Brent Valley and Richmond Branch. — Mrs. Amery-Parkes ; A. N. Booker, 
Pisq. ; .Mrs. Wallace Dunlop; F. W. P'orce, E^^q. ; Miss Margaret Gilliland, 
M.A. (Lend.) ; Miss A. J. Gordon ; Lionel Hayes, Esq. ; T. W. Hill, E'q. ; 
Miss Jeaffreson ; Charles Jones, Esq., M.I.C. E. ; W. M. Jones, Esq. ; F. A. 
Jones, Esq. ; Lady Jane Kenney-Herbert ; F. W. Millachip, Esq. ; Mrs. Neale ; 
William Ottway, Esq. ; Miss M. E. Parker ; C. A. Patten, Esq. ; George H. 
Pritchard, Esq. ; J. Beresford Riley, Esq., M.D. ; E. A. Salter, Esq. ; Mrs. O. 
Salter; Mrs. E. Snowdon; James Startin, Esq., M.R.C.S. ; Mrs. Starlin ; 
Ernest Toley, Esq. ; F. A. Vezey, lisq. ; Miss Rosa Waugh ; Henry Way- 
mouth, Esq. ; T. G. Voell, Esq. 
Kensington and Bayswater Branch . — Miss A. H. Borrow. 
Rather Valley {,Midhursf\ Branch . — Miss Chilver. 
Subscriptions. — The Council has pleasure in acknowledging subscriptions 
of greater value than 5s. from the following members : Miss Anne Garratt, £l is.; 
The Rev. A. L. Hussey, £l is. ; Mrs. Prochownick, £l is. ; The Hon. Walter 
Rothschild, M.P., £i is. ; F. C. .Stewart, Esq., £l is. ; Mrs. Lowther, £i ; 
Miss Ellen Shadwell, 1 Phillips, los. 6d. ; Miss E. B. Brand, los. ; 
