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NATURE NOTES 
FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
Council and Committee Meetings. 
Monday, March l6. — Publications Conimittee at 5.30 p.m. 
Tuesday, March 24. — Council at 5.30 p.m. 
The Annual Conversazione. 
The probable date of the Annual Conversazione will be May ist, as H.M. 
I irst Commissioner of Works has kindly placed the theatre and halls at Burlington 
Gardens at the disposal of the Selborne Society on that day. The President, the 
Right Hon. Lord Avebury, has also signihed his ability to be present on the day 
in question. Excursions. 
Saturday, March 7. — British Museum, Bloomsbury. Assemble in the 
Entrance Hall at 2.15 for 2.30 p.m. Mr. T. A. Joyce has kindly consented to 
give a demonstration in the Ethnographical Gallery. 
Saturday, March 14. — The Royal Botanic Garden,', Kew. The Greenhouses 
and Winter Gardens, paying special attention to Alpine plants. Assemble inside 
the Main Gates (near Kew Bridge) at 3 p.m. Guide, Mr. George Nicholson, 
E.L.S., V.M.H., Ex-Curator of the Gardens. 
Saturday, March 28. — St. Laurence Jewry, Gresham Street, E.C. Assemble 
at 3 p.m. The Rector, the Rev. J. Stephen Barrass, has kindly consented to 
conduct the party. 
Saturday, April ii. — Visit to the Orient Royal Mail .s.s. “ Orontes ” at 
Tilbury, by kind permission of Messrs. Anderson, Anderson and Co. Train 
leaves Eenchurch Street Station (L.T. & S. Ry.) at 2.15 p.m. Return from 
Tilbury at 5.55 p.m., arriving at b’enchurch Street at 6.55. Members who wish 
to attend must send in their names to the Honorary Excursions Secretary before 
April 4, enclosing a stamped addre.ssed envelope. Return tickets is. 6d., but if 
a sufficient number apply, arrangements will be made for reduced fares. 
All communications with regard to Excursions should he addressed to Mr. 
II. H. Poole, Honorary Excursions Secretary, at 16, Heathcote Street, W.C. 
ASTRONOMICAL NOTES FOR MARCH, 1908. 
Venus is very conspicuous as an evening star, setting on the 28th at 10.41 
p.m., or four and a quarter hours after the sun. 
Mars is also visible in the evenings, setting about 10 50 p.m. throughout the 
month. Will be near the moon on the evening of the 6th. 
Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, and will be seen near the 
moon on the 13th. His position is nearly stationary in Cancer. A transit of 
the third satellite occurs on the 5th, 12th, and 19th, and of the fourth on the 9th 
and 26th. 
Saturn may possibly be observed after sunset at the beginning of the month, 
but at the end will be quite lost in the sun’s rays. 
The minor planets Ceres and Pallas are in opposition this month, but these 
objects are too small for observation without telescopes. W. F. D. 
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