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NATURE NOTES 
Mr. F. W. Rudler, I.S.O., F.G.S., contributed a series of 
Selbornian fossils, in connection with which the following 
explanation may be given. The name Selbornian, taken from 
Gilbert White’s village, has been introduced by the Geological 
Survey as a stratigraphical term to include the Gault and Upper 
Greensand. These strata may be regarded as representing 
different phases of the Selbornian group or base of the Upper 
Cretaceous series. The term Selbornian was first made use of 
by Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne in vol. i. of his memoir on “ The 
Cretaceous Rocks of Britain,” 1900. 
There was a very large series of specimens, photographs and 
other representations of Natural History and archaeological speci- 
mens, as well as a few of meteorological and physical interest. 
On the botanical side must be mentioned a collection of 
gourds, in connection with the growing of which Mrs. Bright- 
wen, F.Z.S., F.E.S., who exhibited it, is now justly famous. 
Professor Boulger, F.L.S., covered several tables with museum 
specimens and photo-micrographs of woods. The exhibit of 
Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S., took the shape of water- 
colour drawings illustrating the malformations which fungi cause 
in plants. Mr. Lowne brought some living specimens of bog 
plants, and among the interesting specimens shown by Miss 
Whitmore, were some curious seeds. Among other exhibits of 
a botanical nature were the albums of studies by Mr. Stanley C. 
Bailey, photographs of flowering plants and fungi by Mr. Edward 
Step, F.L.S., and water-colour drawings of East Kent flowers by 
Miss Roget. 
One or two of the exhibits were quite as much zoological as 
botanical. Mr. Henry Stevens’ photographs, the detail in which 
is unrivalled, included studies ot flowers and pictures of happy 
families of the kind which has made his name as an amateur 
photographer. In Mr. Henry Irving’s exhibit were large photo- 
graphs ot trees in summer and winter dress, side by side with 
animals at the Zoo, and a series showing the development of 
the horns of the Wapiti, which is an object-lesson on continued 
observation to all Nature photographers. Among the zoological 
photographs were some birds, including a peacock, cleverly 
caught with his train expanded, by Miss Turner. There were 
also a number of birds and beasts taken by R. B. Lodge and 
Douglas English, and exhibited by Mr. R. S. H. Leeder, as well 
as prints of the cuckoo photographs by Mr. J. Peat Millar 
which Mr. Westell showed as slides in his lecture. Photo- 
micrographs of a caterpillar developing within the egg, and taken 
at very frequent intervals, were lent by Mr. W. 11 . Hammond. 
Mr. John Hopkinson, F.L.S., showed an interesting series 
of coloured plates which will embellish future volumes to be 
published by the Ray Society, the chief object of which, as is well 
known, is to produce monographs on British Natural History. 
'I'he Honorary Secretary showed a complete set of plates of 
tlie British wood-lice, prepared for a book upon the subject. 
