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NATURE NOTES 
branch meetings, or at Country Field Rambles. Members desiring either form 
should write to the Secretary enclosing postal order. The prices are (post paid) 
— Brooch, 3s. 6d. ; Pin, is. gd. If by registered letter 2d. extra. 
Leaflets. — The Council wish to draw the attention of members to the 
undermentioned leaflets, the circulation of which is desirable. “ The Cruelty of 
Wearing ‘ Ospreys,’ ” R. B. Litchfield. “ Feathered Women,” W. H. Hudson. 
“ A Plea for the British Butterfly,” W. F. Kirby. The Secretary will be pleased 
to forword them, post paid, on the receipt of gd. per 100 copies. 
FIELD CLUB RAMBLES. 
April 5. — Kew Gardens. Meet at main entrance on Kew Green at 2.45. 
Guide, Professor F. E. Hulme, F.S.A., F. L.S. 
April 12. — Epping Forest. Meet at Theydon Bois Station at 3.30 on arrival 
of 2.41 (fast train) from Liverpool Street ; Snaresbrook, 2.5g. Day return tickets, 
IS. 4d. Walk to Burgess Farm, Copt Hall Green, for tea at 5.15. Return from 
Chingford about g. 15. Guide, Mr. C. Nicholson, who will be in the East Side 
Suburban booking office at Liverpool Street at 2. 1 5. 
April ig. — Train leaves London Bridge, L.B.S.C.R., 2.25; Victoria, 2.30. 
Take return tickets to Selsdon Road. Walk to Crohamhurst and the Shirley 
Hills. Tea at Waterworks. Guide, Mr. Hunt. 
April 26. — Train leaves Charing Cross, 2.10; Cannon Street, 2.22; London 
Bridge (S.E.R.), 2.27. Take return tickets to Chislehurst. Walk to Chislehurst 
Common and St. Paul’s Cray Common. Guide, Mr. W. L. Shand. 
Alay 3. — Ramble round Northwood, Middlesex. Guide, Mr. J. E. Whiting. 
Train leaves Baker Street, 2.21, Take return tickets to Northwood. Through 
tickets ean be obtained at any station on the Metropolitan Railway. Later 
details will be given in the May number of Nature Notes. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Mias Woodd. — Galax aphylla, one of the Diapensiacea, a native of 
Virginia and North Carolina, sometimes known as “ Wand Plant,” and now 
considerably grown as a foliage-plant for table decoration. It has no right to the 
name Ivy. 
W. Cockaedge. — It would not be desirable to publish your observation on 
a beautiful and much persecuted species of bird. 
S. P. H. — The verses quoted by our reviewer are, we believe, by Mr. Swin- 
burne ; but we do not know their title. 
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be addressed to the Secretary, Mr. R. Marshman Wa'ITSON, 20, Hanover 
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