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NATURE NOTES 
FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
Central Society. 
Business Meetings. — The next meeting of the Council will he held on 
Tuesday, March 28, at 5.30 p.m., and the Publications Committee will meet on 
Monday March 13, at 5.30 p.m. 
Selborne Saturday Afternoons. — Saturday, March ii. — The Houses 
of Parliament. Under the personal guidance of Lord Avebury, President of the 
Society. Meet Mrs. Percy Myles in the “Central Lobby,” at 2.15 for 2.30 p.m. 
Members only. 
Saturday, March 25. — Visit to Tallow-Chandlers’ Hall, Dowgate Hill (near 
Cannon Street Station), E.C. Guides : M. F. Monier-Williams, Esq. (Clerk to 
the Company), J- Douglass Mathews, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., F..S.A. Also visit 
to Innholders’ Hall, College Street, Dowgate Hill, E.C. Guide : J. Douglass 
Mathews, Esq., F. R.I. B.A. , F.S.A. N.B . — Assemble at Tallow-Chandlers’ 
Hall punctually at 2.30 p.m. As space at both Halls is limited, only Members 
can be admitted. 
Branches. 
Hampstead. — A lecture on “ Our Unseen Foes,” will be given by Macdonald 
Brown, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S., F. R.S. E., at the Subscription Library, Prince 
Arthur Road, Hampstead, on Wednesday, March 22, at 8.30 p.m. There will be 
numerous blackboard illustrations. The chair will be taken by Mr. Macleod 
Yearsley, F.R.C.S., F.Z.S. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
S. V. Body . — Parrotia persica, one of the Hamamelidrce or Wych-Hazel 
family, a native of Persia, less valuable for its not unattractive appearance at 
this season of small mercies than for the splendour of its autumn foliage tints. It 
is sometimes called the Iron tree. 
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Honorary General Secretary of the Society, WtLFREi) Mark Weiih, F.L.S., at 
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