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tube Selborne Socfet^j’s nDaoasine. 
No. 185. MAY, 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. 
The Annual Meeting and Conversazione will be held, as 
already announced, by kind permission, in the Theatre and 
Halls of the Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, 
on the evening of May 3. Lord Avebury will give the annual 
address, Mrs. Dukinfield Scott will show her kammatograph 
pictures of opening flowers, Mr. Enock will describe the work 
of a wood-boring wasp with the help of some moving slides, 
Mr. Oliver G. Pike will contribute a short lecture, and Mr. 
Percival Westell has promised to give an account of the actions 
of a young cuckoo and to show photographs in illustration of 
them. There will also be many exhibits, including microscopes 
lent by members of the Royal Microscopical Society and the 
Quekett Club. For particulars see the notice at the end of 
this number. 
The Preservation of Mitcham Common. — We have received 
the following from Mr. E. A. Martin : — 
The chequered career which characterised Mitcham Common from the 
most ancient days until 1891, when Conservators were appointed under the 
