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Zbc Selborne Societie s aftagasine 
No. 139. 
JULY, 1901. VoL. XII. 
SELBORNIANA. 
The View from Richmond Hill. — Attention has been 
directed to the danger that threatens one of the most lovely spots 
in the world, the view from Richmond Hill, Surrey. It is that 
the low-lying wooded meadow-land on the opposite or Middlesex 
side of the river, extending from Twickenham Eyot to Richmond 
Bridge and amounting to about 150 acres, may be sold for 
building purposes. This is not a question which concerns 
Twickenham, Richmond, Middlesex, Surrey or London exclu- 
sively. It is a matter of national interest. No doubt, the sum 
requisite to preserve this beauty spot will be large ; but it is 
one which should be readily contributed to from many sources, 
and should in that manner be easily met. 
A Raid upon the Wild Flowers of the New Forest. — 
The Technical Instruction Committee of the Fssex County 
Council have invited applications from teachers in Fssex for 
attendance at a ten-days holiday course on Nature-study in the 
New Forest during August, and have issued a detailed pro- 
gramme of the course by Mr. David Houston, F.L.S., copies 
of which have been sent to us. This programme has been 
severely criticised in the Times by Professor L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 
and by Professor Meldola, F.R.S., a member of the Committee, 
the main gravamen of their opposition being that the student- 
teachers have their attention specially directed to the rare plants 
of the Forest, and are to form collections for drying and identifi- 
cation. There is much in Mr. Houston’s programme that we 
most heartily approve, as when he proposes to give his pupils 
“ an insight into the way in which plants grow, especially in 
their relations with their environment — the influence of external 
conditions upon their form, .... and the 
