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Khigdom, skin, hair, sebaceous mailer, teeth, &c., are found, where normally 
such structures are not found. 
In the Vegetable Kingdom, hard wood, resembling structurally the wood of 
the tree, but more condensed, is lound between the layers of the soft bark as an 
independent growth, where, of course, normally, no wood is found. 
Brighton. George Morgan, F.R.C.S.Edin. 
[Professor Marshall Ward has kindly referred me to what he says in “ Disea.se 
in Plants” on Sphxroblasts. The passage is as follows: iVood-nodules or 
Sphccrob/asts are curious marble-like masses of wood, which protrude with a 
covering of bark from old trunks of beeches, cS:c., and can be readily dug out 
with a knife. The nodule has arisen by the slow growth of the cambium of a 
dormant bud, the base of which separated at an early date from the wood 
beneath ; the cambium then closed in over the base, and laid on thickening rings 
all round the axis of the bud, except at the extreme apex. When the separation 
occurred the cambium of the wood beneath covered over the previous point of 
junction, and thus the woody bud was pushed out with the bark, and now pro- 
trudes, covered with a thin layer of the latter. Similar nodules are occasionally 
found on apple trees.”— JV.N\. 
SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES. 
Annual Meeting and Conversazione. — The Annual Meeting and 
Conversazione will be held on Thursday, May 29, from 8 to ii, at 20, Hanover 
Square, W., the President, the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c., 
in the Chair. 
The Council will be glad to have the loan of suitable exhibits for the occasion, 
which will be under the direction of the following gentlemen : Botany, Mr. 
L. E. Taylor; Geology, Mr. Ed. A. Martin, F.G.S. ; Microscopes, Mr. A. 
Holte Macpherson, M.A., F.Z.S. ; Photographs and other pictures, Mr. A. B. 
Wilkinson ; Zoology, Mr. Basil W. Martin, F.Z.S. 
Members and friends willing to assist in this matter are requested to address 
the director of the department in which they wish to exhibit, care of Mr. R. 
Marshman Watlson, Dalmeny House, Monument Street, E.C. Tickets will be 
ready for issue on April 15, and Branch Secretaries are requested to send their 
applications for members of their branch by that date. 
Members requiting tickets should apply to the local Hon. Sec., or in the 
case of members unattached to branches, to the Secretary, Selborne Society, 
20, Hanover .Square, \V. A stamped and addressed envelope {not small) must 
accompany each application. 
It is suggested that a Gilbert White exhibition be held in connection with 
this Conversazione, and the Council hope that those possessing any relics asso- 
ciated w ith the naturalist of Selborne, or copies of the various editions of his works, 
will kindly volunteer the loan of such objects by writing to the Secretary as soon 
as possible. 
During the evening a lecture will be given by Mr. F. Enock, on “ Insect 
Marvels of a Town Garden.” 
Council Meeting. — The next meeting of the Council will be held at 
20, Hanover Square, W., on Tuesday, May 20, at 5.30 p.m. 
New Members. — Mrs. Waterhouse, Surbiton; C. Soundy Munn, Esq., 
Surbiton; J. G. Cleghorn, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole ; Sir Guy Campbell, Bart., 
Thames Uition ; Thomas Atkin, Esq., Leicester ; C. E. Collins, Esq., Leyton- 
stone ; W. Long, Esq., Thornton Heath ; W. W. Topley, Esq., Croydon. 
Donations and Subscriptions. — The Council beg to acknowledge the 
following donations : George Avenell, Esq., 21s. ; Mrs. E. Phillips, 21s. ; 
J. Ward Daw, 2s. 6d. 
Subscriptions over 5s. : J. H. Masters, Esq., los. ; Miss Hall, los. ; Lady 
Jenkyns, los. 
