IRature IRotes : 
^Ebe Selborne Society’s flftagastne. 
No. 147. MARCH, 1902. VoL. XIII. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Our Annual Meeting. — The attention of our Members is 
directed to the notice that appears at the end of the present 
number of the date fixed for our Annual Meeting and Conver- 
sazione. The Council propose that a Gilbert White Exhibition 
should form part of the latter, and the Secretary will be glad to 
receive offers of the loan of any relics, or of editions of the 
“ Natural History ” and “ Antiquities” for the occasion. 
Burnham Beeches. — Recent correspondence in the news- 
papers has directed attention to forestal operations in the 
management of this open space, the expediency of which has 
been doubted. Criticism has come from the artistic, ornitho- 
logical and entomological sides ; and the Council, alive to the 
necessity for the Selborne Society’s being informed as to the true 
state of the case, have commissioned the Editor to make a visit 
of enquiry. His report will appear in our next number. 
Arbor-Day. — While we are going to press the Annual 
Meeting of the Society for the Protection of Birds is being held, 
at which the excellent proposal is to be brought forward that 
His Majesty the King’s coronation-year should be celebrated by 
the institution in all the schools of the country of a “ Bird and 
Arbor Day,” such as has already become a national institution 
in many of the United States. The same subject is to be 
brought before the Royal Horticultural Society at their next 
meeting. The proposal is one which has already been mooted in 
these pages, and which will receive the hearty sympathy of 
every Selbornian. 
“ Nature-Study ” Exhibition. — A committee of educa- 
tionists has been formed with a view to the holding a “ Nature- 
