Mature Motes : 
tEbe Selbornc Society’s tlOaoasine. 
No. 149. 
MAY, 1902. VoL. XIII. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Memorial to Richard Jefferies. — The members of the 
North Wilts Field and Camera Club have in hand a movement 
of very considerable interest, for it is their intention to affix a 
tablet to the front of No. 22, Victoria Street, Swindon, to com- 
memorate the residence in the house of the great Wiltshire 
writer, who resided there for a few years previous to his removal 
from the district in 1877. The object which the energetic Club 
named has in view is worthy of all support. It will be remem- 
bered that a bust of Jeflferies, by Miss Margaret Thomas, was 
erected in Salisbury Cathedral in March, 1892, and there was a 
brief report in Nature Notes of the proceedings. 
War on the Sparrow. — Mr. Hannett writes: “ Under this 
heading a paragraph appeared in the Evening News for IMarch 31. 
It stated that the Suffolk farmers are waging war on the sparrow. 
The Wickham Market Club, recently formed to encourage the 
capture and killing of these birds, has returned a total of 8,583 
sparrows destroyed. From all appearances, it seems that this 
cruel practice will never be ended. Surely it is high time that 
someone intervened on the birds’ behalf, and the Suffolk farmers 
must remember that the sparrow is by no means their only 
enemy.” 
Richmond Park. — It is hardly necessary to call attention to 
the preposterous suggestion that this lovely park should be 
utilised (hateful word !) as a military training ground. There is 
an ugly waste at Hounslow, the War Office owns much meadow 
land thereabouts : there are the flats at Rainham and Purfleet, 
and on the Kentish side of the Thames ; and there are Epsom 
Downs and Mitcham Common, at present wasted on horse-racing 
and golf. Even a return to the former destruction of Wimble- 
