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NATURE NOTES 
Station on the arrival of the train leaving Paddington at 2.30, Ealing at 2.43. 
Walk, by permission, along the left bank of the River Colne to Iver Water 
Splash. Visit Iver Church ; afterwards tea will be taken in Iver Village. Return 
by the right bank of the Colne to West Drayton. 
The members of the Ealing Scientific and Microscopical Society will take 
part in this excursion. 
Guide, Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S. 
If a sufficient number intimate their intention (to Mr. Webb, at Odstock, 
Ilanwell, W.) of taking part in this excursion, before July 10, arrangements will 
be made for reduced fares and reserved compartments. 
Saltirday, July 22. — Weybridge to Shepperton Lock. Waterloo, 2.28; 
Weybridge 3.10. The Gardens of Caneswood, formerly the residence of Dr. 
Lionel Beale, by kind permission of Mrs. Greet ; thence by heath to the grounds 
of Oatlands Park Hotel and the site of Oatlands Palace (admission to Grotto, 
6d., optional). P'erry to Shepperton. Tea at “ Bennett’s,” Shepperton Lock, 
about 5.15. By the river-bank to Shepperton Church and Village. Frequent 
return trains. 
Guide, Dr. Henry Willson. 
Saturday, July 29. — Farthing Down, Chaldon and Coulsdon. Take cheap 
day tickets to Coulsdon, is. 6d. Cannon Street, 2.16; London Bridge (S.E.R.), 
2.20 ; Charing Cross, 2.6 (passengers from Charing Cross change at Purley). 
Tea at The Fox. 
Special object of interest in Chaldon Church, mural painting, ” The Ladder 
of Salvation,” twelfth century. 
Guide, Mr. H. H. Poole. 
Saturday, August 5. — No excursion. Saturday before Bank Holiday. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Pev. E. T. Daubeny. — The general opinion of experts is that the pear- 
blossoms you sent had had their pedicels bruised by the high winds early in May, 
and that the trees immune from injury were probably shorter or stouter in the 
stalk. 
Mrs. Needham. — The cut-leaved Beech (Fagus sylvatica, var. incises) and 
Anemoste sylvestris. 
Miss Wysidham. — The longicorn beetle feeding on pine-bark is Callidium 
violaceum. It is seldom possible to name any insect with certainty from a non- 
technical description. 
Miss Roget. — “British Birds’ Eggs and Nests,” by Rev. J. C. Atkinson 
(Routledge), is. ; “ British Birds’ Eggs,” by R. Laishley (Lovell Reeve), 7s. 6d. 
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