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^be Sdborne Society’s iTDaoasine. 
No 153. SEPTEMBER, 1902. Vol XIII. 
OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
To preserve from unnecessary destruction such wild birds, 
animals, and plants as are harmless, beautiful, or rare. To 
discourage the wearing and use for ornament of birds and their 
plumage, except when the birds are killed for food or reared 
for their plumage. To protect places and objects of antiquarian 
interest or natural beauty from ill-treatment or destruction. To 
promote the study of natural history. 
SELBORNIANA. 
The Nature-study Exhibition. — When we first heard of 
the proposal to hold a Nature-study Exhibition in July, we 
confess that we were convinced that there w'as no likelihood of 
a satisfactory organisation being carried out in the time then 
available. That our fears have not been justified — as they most 
certainly have not — can only be explained by the indefatigable 
energy of the prime mover, Mr. J. C. Medd, and of his coadjutors. 
The collection exhibited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent’s 
Park, from July 23 to August 5, far surpassed in copiousness, 
variety and interest, anything that the most sanguine well-wisher 
of the scheme could have thought possible. On six days during 
the Exhibition, conferences were held on related topics, under the 
most distinguished chairmanship, our President, Lord Avebury, 
appropriately opening the first of these with an address on the 
study of Nature. We will reserve any detailed attempt to speak 
of these debates until the publication of the promised official 
Report ; but two comments we may make at once. Firstly, too 
much was attempted on each afternoon, the number of papers 
