H^atuve Motes : 
XTbe Sdbornc Socfct\>’s lir>aoa3inc. 
No. 182. FEBRUARY. 1905. Vol. XVI. 
OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
To promote the study of Natural History. To preserve from 
needless destruction such wild animals and plants as are harm- 
less, beautiful, or rare. To discourage the wearing and use for 
ornament of: (i) The skins and furs of such animals as are 
in danger of being exterminated ; (2) the skins and plumage 
of such birds as are not domesticated. To protect places and 
objects of natural beauty or antiquarian interest from ill- 
treatment or destruction. To afford facilities for combined effort 
in promoting any of the above or kindred objects. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Selborne Church — An Appeal. — The Vicar of Selborne is 
appealing to the lovers of Gilbert White to help towards some 
very necessary repairs to the parish church, where the naturalist’s 
grandfather officiated as vicar, and where the naturalist, no 
doubt, was baptised, where he acted for many years as curate, 
and in whose graveyard he lies buried. The framework of the 
bells, for instance, has not been touched since 1735, when as 
White tells us, the three ancient bells were cast into four, and a 
fifth added at the expense of Sir Simeon Stuart, who ordered 
“ that the treble bell should be fixed bottom upward in the 
ground and filled with punch, of which all present were permitted 
10 partake.” We shall be happy to forward any donations which 
our readers may send us for this object which, we feel sure, 
must appeal to all Selbornians, and may remind them that 
Selborne still happily remains a small secluded village, quite 
unable to meet the expense of this needful work. 
Telephone Poles and Epping Forest. — The Post Office 
authorities have of late been seeking powers, for the sake of 
