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frontage on the Surrey side to the Richmond Corporation, in 
return for a permission, to deal with part of the Ham Common 
lands as he pleases. Meanwhile, by the munificence of Sir Max 
Waechter, the Petersham Lodge estate is also secured from all 
fear of the builder. Anxiety as to the future attaches rather to 
the Buccleuch House and Cambridge House estates, and to 
Richmond Bridge, which is threatened by the utilitarian hand 
of a philistine Tramway Company. 
Memorial to Richard Jefferies. — It will be remembered 
that we were able to announce in our issue of May last that, 
under the auspices of the North Wilts Field and Camera Club, 
a movement was in progress to affix a suitable tablet to the front 
of No. 22, Victoria Street, Swindon, a house at one time occupied 
by Richard Jefferies. The movement, we are glad to say, has 
now been crowned with success, for on Saturday, November 15, 
this further instalment — and we feel it to be but an instalment — 
of justice to the memory of Wiltshire’s most gifted son took the 
form of a large meeting at the Town Hall, Swindon, followed by 
a procession to the house in Victoria Street, where the unveiling 
of the tablet by Lord Avebury, President of the Selborne Society, 
was carried out. At the meeting at the Town Hall, over which 
the Mayor presided, able and eloquent addresses were delivered 
by Lord Avebury and Mr. P. Anderson Graham (Editor of 
•Country Life). 
The tablet on the house bears the inscription : “ Here lived 
Richard Jefferies, 1875 — 1877,” and before the curtain was 
drawn aside by Lord Avebury, the great crowd then assembled 
enjoyed the privilege of hearing at considerable length the Club’s 
distinguished President, Mr. N. Story Maskelyne, formerly 
Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Oxford. He 
was afterwards followed by Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, M.P., 
Chairman of the Wilts County Council. Our space, unfortu- 
nately, does not allow of our giving extracts from the speeches, 
impressive as they were in their range and sympathy, and 
for particulars of them we must therefore refer Selbornians 
to the local papers, which have published very full reports 
of the proceedings. We must not omit to accord a full measure 
of thanks to Mr. T. C. Davison, the Club’s Hon. Sec., for his 
unwearied efforts in so good a cause. The Council of the 
Selborne Society was directly represented at the ceremonies by 
its present Chairman, Mr. George Avenell. 
