Mature Motes: 
tTbe Selbome Society fTDaga3me 
No. 5. 
MAY 15, 1890. 
VOL. I. 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SELBORNE SOCIETY. 
HE Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at 
Burlington Hall, Savile Row, on Thursday, May 1st, 
1890, Dr. George Harley, F.R.S., in the chair. The 
following brief report of the Council for the year ending 
April 30th, 1890, was read and adopted : — 
“ There has been a very satisfactory increase in the number 
of members, and new branches have been formed at Chichester, 
Guildford, Liverpool, Nottingham, Brighton, Bloomsbury (Atal- 
anta), Dorking and Epsom (Evelyn), Southampton and New 
Forest, Neston, and Forth: the last is the first branch estab- 
lished in Scotland. 
“ In November the editor of The Selbome Magazine withdrew 
from the management for the Society of that periodical ; and the 
Council thereupon thought it desirable to found a new monthly 
Magazine. The first number appeared in January under the 
title of Nature Notes. The Rev. Percy Myles and Mr. James 
Britten of the British Museum have undertaken the editing of 
the Magazine, and a standing Committee for the management of 
all matters other than literary has been appointed. The Council 
is pleased to be able to announce that Nature Notes has been 
very favourably received by the public and the press, and that 
its circulation and influence are increasing with every issue. 
The scope and purpose of the new Magazine have been fully ex- 
plained in a circular letter sent to all members of the Society, 
and copies of a leaflet setting forth its programme and the 
objects of the Society may be had for distribution on application 
at the Society’s Office.” 
