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habits, and where to look for them. I will undertake to find them and their 
excretion, honey-dew, on the plants or trees round my premises on any day the 
summer through, and in any summer, wet, dry, hot, or cold. 
Mr. Hastie states that aphides are “ found on only a few kinds of trees.” 
Will he kindly tell us what those few are? With the exception, perhaps, of the 
yew, hardly any indigenous tree is free from their attacks. Our forest trees, our 
fruit trees and vegetables, our corn and root crops, even the thistle, and many 
other common weeds, are frequently infested by them. “ There seems to be 
hardly a forest tree or crop plant in this country of which we can say that it is 
not infested by one or more kinds of aphides, either above or under ground ” 
(“ Agricultural Entomology ”). 
Can Mr. Hastie produce authority to upset my comments ? 
Edmund Thos. Daubeny. 
NATURAL HISTORY QUERY. 
48. Cloud Columns. — I should like to make known to your readers an 
unusual phenomenon I observed on the afternoon of .Saturday, March ii. 
I was in the reading-room of our local “Y.U.,” looking through the window, 
when my attention was directed to a “waterspout cloud formation.” Unfor- 
tunately I did not see the clouds in course of formation, so am deprived of giving 
you any lengthy description. The clouds which were affected by the phenomenon 
were confined to a limited area and were seen as three columns, as near the shape 
of a waterspout as it is possible to imagine. The weather on this particular day 
was unsettled and very windy. If any reader of Nature Notes will tell me the 
probable cause, I shall highly esteem their suggestions, whether assumed or based 
upon facts. 
6, Brunswick Street, Canton, Cardiff, J. W. CooK. 
March 13, 1905. 
SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES. 
[Note.— All Announcements with regard to Meetings ok the 
Central Society or Branches will he found together at the end 
OF these Notices.] 
New Members. — Central Society — Mrs. Stenton Covington, Norwood; 
Miss Lucy A. Uuxbury, Richmond ; Matthew Davenport Hill, Esq., M.A., 
F.Z.S., Eton College; Mrs. Jenkins, Enfield; Captain Kilham, R.N., Notting- 
ham ; Miss Moodie, Wimbledon ; Mrs. Oates, Castle Hedingham ; Miss J. M. 
Percival, Eortis Green ; Oliver Pike, Esq., Winchmore Hill ; Mrs. Purvis-Purvis, 
Dunton Green ; the Rev. Arthur Shipham, Gainsborough ; James A. Stiff, Esq., 
F.Z.S., Wimbledon ; Miss Constance M. Thomas, East Twickenham : Miss 
M. C. Tosh, Wimbledon ; Miss A. Tudor, Hadley. 
Bir/ningham Branch — Sir Hallewell Rogers, Lady Rogers, Edgbaston ; 
Mrs. Allan Tangye, Edgbaston. 
Croydon Branch — Miss C. .Sharman, Croydon ; George Wilson, Esq., Mrs. 
George Wilson, .Streatham. 
Hampstead Branch — ^J. Cofman-Nicoresti, Esq,, Hart Street, W.C. ; H. P. 
Cooper, Esq., Hampstead ; Miss A. Cottam, Walsall ; C. W. Cunnington, 
Esq., M.R.C.S., D.P.IL, West F 2 nd Lane; Miss Kate Levy, Miss Frances 
Martin, Hampstead ; Jacob Myring, Esq., Miss Alice Myring, Richmond ; Mrs. 
T. L. Paterson, Upper Wimpole Street, W. ; Mrs. II. Plowman, Haverstock 
Hill; Miss E. E. Potter, Hampstead. 
Donations to the Fund for Restoring Selborne Church. — At the 
Council Meeting, held on P'ebruary 28, the sum of five guineas was voted towards 
the cost of restoring Selborne Church and its bells, and this donation, together 
