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NATURE NOTES. 
including some of the best authorities on the Botany, Entomo- 
logy and Ornithology of the British Isles. The gentlemen who 
are connected with the Natural History Department of the 
British Museum, and with the Royal Gardens, Kew, have been 
especially kind in their readiness to help. Communications 
are expected in early numbers from some of the following: — 
Edmund J. Baillie, F.L.S. ; Rev. D. W. Barrett, M.A. ; 
Anthony Belt ; Hon. Mrs. R. C. Boyle ; Miss A. M. Buckton ; 
G. B. Buckton, F.R.S., F.L.S. ; Sir Mounstuart E. Grant 
Duff, G.C.S.I., F.R.S, ; Alfred East, R.I. ; Prof. Flower, 
C.B., F.R.S., LL.D. ; Rev. H. D. Gordon, M.A. ; G. C. Haiti:, 
F.L.S.; G. Harley, M.D., F.R.S. ; Francis George Heath; 
W. B. Hemsley, F.R.S., A.L.S. ; Walter E. P. Hogg ; Prof. F. 
F. Hulme, F.L.S., F.S.A.; Robert Hunter; J. R. Jackson, 
A.L.S. ; Edward King ; W. F. Kirby, F.Z.S. ; Rev. C. T. 
Millard, M.A. ; G. R. M. Murray, F.L.S.; G. A. Musgrave, 
F.Z.S., F R.G.S. ; Geo. Nicholson, A.L.S. ; J. L. Otter; Rev. 
H. Rawnsley, M.A. ; R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S. ; H. J. 
Slack, F.R.M.S. ; Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S. ; Henry 
Smith; G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S.; Prof. Trail, M.A., M.D., 
F.L.S.; T. F. Wakefield; Miss Annie Wallis; Rev. H. C. 
White, B.A. ; F. N. Williams, F.L.S. 
Enough has been said to show that much thought has been 
taken how best to meet the wants and wishes of Selbornians. 
But after all, it is upon the Members of the Society that the 
success of the undertaking depends ; and to them we confidently 
appeal to give every aid in their power to secure a wide circula- 
tion and high position for Nature Notes, the Selborne Society’s 
Magazine. 
THE INTRODUCTION OF FOREIGN WEEDS. 
By GEORGE NICHOLSON, A.L.S. 
Curator of the Royal Gardens , Kew. 
HE paragraph from Herschell, which Mr. Hewett Cottrell 
Watson chose as the motto for his famous “ Cybele 
Britannica,” indicates, with characteristic clearness, 
the spirit in which he himself worked, and might well 
be taken as a guiding principle by those who wish to follow in 
the footsteps of that eminent observer of nature. “ There is 
scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but the will, 
has not also the power, to add something essential to the general 
stock of knowledge, if he will only observe regularly and 
methodically some particular class of facts which may excite 
his attention or which his situation may best enable him to 
study with effect.” Another writer, a well-known local bota- 
nist, Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs, of Plymouth, in a paper entitled 
