No. i. 
JANUARY, 1890. 
Vol. I. 
OUR PROGRAMME. 
By the EDITORS. 
ATURE NOTES, the Selborne Society’s Magazine, is 
intended to be a record of progress — progress in the 
love of Nature, in the knowledge of natural objects, 
and in the war to be waged in defence of the beauties 
of Nature against their more or less avowed exterminators. 
One main object of the Magazine (which will be kept steadily 
in view by the Editors) is to establish a connecting link between 
uninstructed love of Nature and accurate scientific knowledge. 
Those who know most are not always those who love most ; but 
additional knowledge will certainly increase the pleasure of those 
who are already Nature-lovers, i.e., Selbornians. Accordingly, 
the articles in the Magazine will not be of a technically scientific 
nature, but the writers will seek to combine accuracy of state- 
ment with a popular style. Such topics will be chosen as are 
likely to interest the ordinary reader, who is not a trained 
botanist or zoologist, but wishes to learn more about the Flowers, 
Birds, and Insects, w r hich attract his attention in his daily 
walks, if he lives in the country, or which have caught his eye 
in his holiday rambles, if he is one who passes most of his time 
“ in populous city pent.” 
It is believed that a large number of interesting observations, 
made by those who use their eyes for the purpose of Nature- 
study, are lost, because the observers do not think what they 
have noticed is of sufficient value to be worthy of record in any 
scientific Journal. We may hope that Nature Notes will do much 
to utilise such observations and to collate the experience of 
various observers. 
Records of the Earliest Leafing and Flowering of Plants , and 
the time when the last flowers are seen, will be inserted. A 
useful little Handbook for those who wish to compile such a 
calendar is “ The Naturalists’ Diary,” by Mr. Roberts. 
