IRatuve (Rotes : 
tlbe Selborne Society’s ^fl^agasine. 
No. 154. OCTOBER, 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. 
Sale of the Wakes. — The fact that Gilbert White’s house 
is for sale having found its way into the daily press, it may be 
well to state that the Council have the matter under due con- 
sideration. Meanwhile we have received the following letter 
from Mr. R. Hedger Wallace, one of the prime movers in the 
recent most successful Nature-study Exhibition : — 
“ As Gilbert White’s house and grounds are now in the market, and the 
Selborne Society are endeavouring, I believe, to have it purchased and retained 
as a public trust, may I suggest that no better place could be found for a school — 
normal or otherwise — of ‘ Nature-study,’ and that it could be made the centre for 
English Nature-study teaching. 
“ I have seen it suggested that a museum be placed in Gilbert White’s 
old home, but collections of dead remains, animal and vegetable, are, I take 
it, entirely foreign to the spirit of this old naturalist’s w'ork and teaching. A 
museum of Personalia is, of course, a different thing, and has a value which is 
not utilitarian. 
“ What, however, could well be housed at Selborne, and would assist the 
Nature-study movement, is a library — say the ‘ Gilbert White Memorial 
Library’ — which would illustrate what has been and is the influence of his 
‘ teaching over the wide world — especially the English-speaking world. The 
