SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES 
Lancelyn House School Junior Branch, at the request of Miss C. B. Kankine and 
Miss E. B. Dickens, of Lancelyn House, Kew Road, Kew Gardens, S.W. 
Library. — The Honorary Librarian will attend at 20, Hanover Square, 
from 6 p.in. to 6.30 p.ni., on the evenings of June 15 and July 20, for the 
pur pise of issuing books to members. 
The Honorary Librarian has pleasure in announcing the following additions 
to the library : “The Insect Book,” by W. Percival Westell, F. L.S. , M. B.O. U. ; 
“Our Woodlands, Heaths and Hedges,” by W. S. Coleman, F.E.S., kindly 
presented by the Editor. 
NEWS FROM THE BRANCHES. 
Farnham. — By the invitation of the Honorary .Secretary, Mrs. Marindin, 
the Branch met at Hammondswood, Frensham, on the aRernoon of Saturday, 
May 9. Professor Boulger, Editor of Nature Notes, attended and delivered 
a lecture on Insectivorous Plants, with special reference to the .Sundews and 
other repre.sentatives of this remarkable type of plant-nutrition which grow in the 
neighbourhood. The lecture was illustrated by models. After some discussion, 
the Professor, at the request of those present, gave some account of the Bill to 
prohibit the importation of birds’ plumage which the President of the Society 
has introduced in the House of Lords. 
Belgravia Junior. — The following letter has been received from Mrs. Douglas 
Wilson ; — 
“ May 6, 1908. 
“Dear Mrs. Fitzroy, — No one put in an appearance to go rambling this 
afternoon. On Saturday last I went to Northwood and over the ground I had 
intended taking the children to-day, to get an idea of the bird and plant life best 
in evidence at present. To-day my disappointment was a little relieved by 
meeting a lady friend, who lives at Northwood, and she and I re-traversed the 
ground I had gone over on Saturday. The rain kept off, fortunately, and the sun 
shone out at times. I had a favourite haunt of the nightingale as my chief 
feature for this afternoon, and cowslip gathering I had thought would make an 
ideal ending to the expedition. However, as I said, no one came to allow me to 
carry out my plan. So my friend and I went to the haunt of the nightingale, and 
there were three of these beautiful birds in full song irilling one against the other, 
and two of them were so obliging as to allow us to see as well as to hear them. 
We found a partridge’s nest with one egg in it while searching for the nest of a 
nightingale. We also heard many wrens, whitethroals, chiff-chaffs, chaffinches, 
cuckoos, hedge-sparrows, larks, thrushes, and blackbirds ; indeed, the bird 
chorus this afternoon was \-ery beautiful. Evidently the birds prefer showery 
weather, judging by their song power to-day. 
“ Although my friend lives in Northwood, she had never before, to her know- 
ledge, heard the nightingale, and was very charmed with it. We gathered a 
quantity of cowslips, and then I went home and had tea with her, and arrived 
back at Brondesbury about 7.15. 
“ I am so sorry no one ventured, for the rain kept off, and the weather 
improved as the afternoon advanced, although there was a heavy downpour while 
I was in the train on my way to Northwood. 
“ Let us hope we shall be more fortunate in our next ramble. I fear the birds 
will all be silent by then, for the nesting season will be over. This is a pity.” 
Note by Mrs. Almeric Fitzroy, Honorary Secretary of the Belgravia Junior 
Branch. — It is a great pity that the wintry weather in April and the present un 
settled weather prevented anyone taking advantage of .Mrs. Wilson’s kindness. 
There is so much to be seen in any ramble, even on an unpromising day, under 
so able and sympathetic a guide as Mrs. Douglas Wilson. 
