SELBORNIANA, &c. 
3i 
gTOATS AND WEASLES (Sic. ) 
6s 6d. each will be given for STOATS and 5s. each for 
“WEASLES, and Carriage will be paid from any part of 
the Country.* 
A PLAGUE OF RATS. 
A plague of rats is raging in the east of England. The 
farmers cannot keep their wheat in consequence of the numbers 
in the stacks, and have to thresh and sell out. 
Mr. H. G. O. Kexdall, of The Hyde, Hatfield, Herts, also writes, calling 
attention to the fact that the preservation of “ game ” often causes the destruction 
under the name of “ vermin ” of many natural checks to rat plagues, and thus 
tends to produce a bread famine. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
We have received from various authors and publishers books of special 
interest to Selbornians. Reviews of several of these works have been written for 
Nature Notes, but the demands upon our space are such that we are unable in 
the present number to do more than give the names and publishers of the 
following : — 
About Robins : Songs, Facts and Legends , collected and illustrated by Lady 
Lindsay, R.I. : George Routledge and Sons. 
A ncient Cures, Charms and Usages of Ireland : Contributions to Irish Lore , 
by Lady Wilde : Ward and Downey. 
Sylvanus Redivivus (Memoirs of the Rev. John Mitford and Edward Jesse), 
by Mrs. Houston : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. 
Science and Scientists, by the Rev. John Gerard, S.J. : Catholic Truth Society. 
' Idylls of the Field, by F. A. Knight : Elliot Stock. 
Haunts of Nature, by Worsley-Benison : Elliot Stock. 
The Butterfly, by John Stuttard : Fisher Unwin. 
In Tennyson-land, by J. C. Walters : Redway. 
OFFICIAL NOTICES, MEETINGS, &C. 
The Hon. Treasurer begs to acknowledge the following surplus funds received 
from branch Secretaries for the general purposes of the Society : 
Atalanta 
5 
8 
Kent 
...£2 
0 
6 
Bays water ... 
... 2 
0 
0 
Liverpool ... 
... O 
18 
7 h 
Bournemouth 
... I 
0 
0 
Northern Heights 
... I 
10 
6 
Chichester ... 
... O 
11 
11 
Nottingham 
... O 
1 7 
ioj 
Clapton 
... O 
4 
3i 
Petersfield ... 
... I 
10 
7 
Ifaslemere ... 
... 5 
0 
0 
Putney 
••• 3 
0 
0 
Isle of Wight 
••• 3 
1 
0 
Southampton 
... 1 
1 
6 
Kensington 
•*. 3 
0 
0 
Weybridge ... , 
... 0 
16 
10 
At the Annual Meeting of the Lower Thames Valley Branch of the Society, 
an important report was submitted showing the large amount of work which had 
been done by the Branch during the year, in the way of defending the beauties of 
Presumably for New Zealand or Australia. — Eds. 
