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NATURE NOTES. 
The rev. gentleman is a marvel of mental and physical vigour, being one of the 
nonagenarians still surviving in our midst. Later on J. W. Morris, Esq., F. L.S., 
will lecture on “ The Balance of Life in Nature.” 
The Bath Branch is one of the very oldest departments (of the Selborne 
Society. The Tudor Branch is, we believe, the youngest of a fast growing family, 
but already displays as much activity as its seniors, judging from the following 
account of its proceedings. On the 30th of October the Secretary of the Tudor 
Branch of the Selborne Society (Mr. J. J. Ogle) delivered a lecture on “ Some 
Notable Nature Lovers ” in the Peel Road Presbyterian Church, Bootle. The 
lecturer took as typical lives those of Gilbert White, Thomas Edward (the Scotch 
naturalist), Charles Kingsley, and William Wordsworth, and was listened to with 
the greatest attention for an hour and and a half, with frequent outbursts of 
applause. At the close Mr. Ogle was asked to give another lecture at an early 
date. The second winter meeting of the Tudor Branch took place in the Students’ 
Room Free Library, Bootle, on Friday, November 14th. The Vice-President 
(Mr. Hugh Reid) read a paper on “ Plant Life,” which was illustrated by the 
President (the Mayor of Bootle) by means of an optical lantern. Twenty-three 
members and visitors were present ; two new members were enrolled. The winter 
programme includes papers on “ Selbornian Books,” “Some Aspects of Mrs. 
Browning’s Nature Poetry,” “ The Work of a River,” “ The Life History of a 
Crab,” “ Nature as seen by Charles Dickens,” “Some Lowly Forms of Vegetable 
Life,” “Field Operations as described by Virgil in the Georgies.” We shall 
always be glad to have programmes of such courses of lectures for publication in 
Nature Notes, and also reports of the lectures themselves, extracts from which 
our readers would doubtless be glad to see. 
Mrs. Packham sends, through the Rev. H. D. Gordon, the copy of a magazine 
for January, 1S88, required for Dr. Evans, which has been forwarded. Mr. Cyril 
J. Turner, of Hurst Road, Bexley, kindly writes as follows: — “I have all the 
numbers from the commencement unbound, and shall be pleased to give them to 
any subscriber who wishes to make up volumes.” 
We have several articles in hand (many of them in print) by the Rev. F. O 
Morris, Rev. II. D. Gordon, the Rev. Professor G. Henslow, Mr. Archibald I„. 
Clark, Mr. Aubrey Edwards, Mr. A. H. Macpherson, Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, 
&c. ,&c., for which we are quite unable to find room in the present number. Some 
of these articles we hope to print in the number for January, 1891, in which an 
addition of four pages will be made to the magazine. In that number we also 
hope to publish an account of the present most satisfactory position of the Selborne 
Society, and of the methods by which its magazine has secured, and hopes to con- 
tinue its great and unforeseen success. In all probability the funds at our disposal 
will enable the magazine to be permanently enlarged from January, 1891, onwards. 
This is the only mode by which it will be possible for us to do justice to the articles 
of our kind contributors, and to give such accounts of the rapidly progressing 
ramifications of the Selborne Society, as our readers would naturally desire. 
We cannot close this volume without returning grateful thanks to the kind 
friends at Great Stanmore and Richmond by whom, with accuracy and celerity, 
the index was compiled. 
It is particularly requested that subscriptions and letters bearing on the general 
business of the Society should vot be forwarded to the Editors, but to the Secretary 
of the Selborne Society, 9, Adam Street, Adelphi. Editorial communications 
should be addressed to the Rev. Percy Myles, i, Argyle Road, Ealing, W. 
