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Zhe Sclborne Society’s nr>aga3(ne 
No. 137. 
MAY, 1901. VoL. XII. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Annual Meeting and Conversazione. — The attention of 
members is directed to the announcement of the Annual Meeting 
in the last number. It wilt take place on Thursday, the i6th 
inst., under the presidency of the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, 
D.C.L., F.R.S., &c., when, in addition to the business of the 
year and the usual conversazione, a lecture on Mimicry, with 
lantern illustrations, will be given by Mr. R. B. Lodge. 
New Edition of White’s Selborne. — We hear from 
Messrs. Dent and Co. that they are adding the “ Natural History 
of Selborne ” to the “ Temple Classics ” series. This issue will 
be edited by Mr. C. Weekes, and reproductions of Bewick’s 
drawings of birds will be used in it. The dainty form of this 
excellent series is well known. 
Bibliographical Enquiry as to White’s Selborne. — 
Mr. O. V. Aplin, of Bloxham, Oxfordshire, writes : — “ I should be 
greatly obliged if any reader of Nature Notes who possesses 
a copy of the original edition of the ‘ Natural History of Selborne ’ 
would kindly say if in his or her copy the paging runs from 440 
to 443, missing out 441 and 442 altogether. My copy is paged 
thus. I have compared it with the fine 1813 4to, and the letter- 
press in both editions corresponds exactly, so that I do not think 
my copy of the 1789 edition is incomplete : moreover the old- 
fashioned, but useful catchw'ord at the foot of p. 440 proves this. 
If all the copies of this edition are alike in this particular, a 
curious mistake was made by the printers. And it may be 
worth while calling attention to the fact, if only to save from 
needless alarm any one who chances to discover that a cherished 
first edition lacks pp. 441 and 442.” 
