SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES 
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George Wheeler, Es<i., £i is. ; Miss E. K. Barlow, £\ ; Dr. Dudley 
Buxton, 10s. 6d. : G. S. F. Manton, Esq., 10s. 6d. ; Mrs. M. A. Marshall, 
los. 6d. ; Miss .-\. W. Smith, 10s. ; Miss E. Wright, los. ; F. J. Brewer, Esq., 
F. R.I.B.A., 7s. 6d. ; Mrs. Broughton, 7s. 6d. ; Dr. E. Malaher, 7s. 6d. ; 
James Mill, Esq., 65.; George Andrews, Esq., 5s. 6d. ; J. W. .Sharpe, Esq., 
5s. 6d. : Ernest Walham, Esq., 5s. 6d. 
Prizes for Junior Members. — The Council has decided to offer a prize 
of half-a-guinea each month, for the time being, to be competed for by Members 
of Junior Branches (Associates of the Selborne Society) and young Member.s. 
Details of the second competition are given below. 
Regulations for the Second Competition. .A prize of half-a-guinea, offered by 
the Chairman of Council, will be awarded for the best series of two or mote 
photographs illustrating the life-history of some creature or one of its habits taken 
by an Associate (member of a Junior Branch), or by an ordinary Mentber of the 
Society, under twenty-one years of age. .-Ml photographs should be clearly 
labelled with the name, address, and age (which will be taken into consideration 
in making the award) of the competitor, and should be in the hands of the 
Honorary Secretary of the Selborne Society, at 20, Hanover Square, W., by 
October 20th, 1905. .All parcels to be securely packed and endorsed on the 
outside “Second Competition.” 
For particulars regarding the formation of Junior Branches in Schools and 
elsewhere, as well as of ordinary membership, application should be made to 
Wilfred Mark Webb, Honorary Secretary, 20, Hanover Square, W. 
Library. — The Honorary Librarian will attend at 20, Hanover Square, 
from 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on the evenings when the Publications Committee meets 
(at present on the second Monday in the month), for the purpose of issuing books 
to Members. 
The Honorary Librarian has much pleasure in announcing the following 
additions to the Library: “Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne,” 
1836 edition, kindly presented by Miss Ellen Shadwell ; “Charters of Sel- 
borne Priory,” purchased by the Society ; “ Wasps, Social and Solitary,” by 
G. W. and E. C. Peckham ; “Animals I have Known,” by A. H. Bevan ; 
“ Wayside and Woodland Blossoms,” by Edward Step ; “ To Selborne for a 
Holiday,” by E. B. N. ; “Observations sur les Guepes,” “Observations sur les 
Fourmis,” and “ Description du Materiel d’une Petite Installation Scientifique,” 
by Charles Janet ; Homeland Handbooks : “ The Great Ouse,” “ Horsham and 
St. Leonard’s Forest,” “ Lynton and Lynmouth,” “ Reigate and Redhill,” kindly 
presented by the Editor. 
NEWS FROM THE BRANCHES. 
North Middlesex (Junior). — On July 7, Mr. C. M. Hall, M.M.S., gave 
a short discourse on the “ Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrata.” After briefly 
sketching the conformation of the five divisions, he gave numerous instances of 
popular fallacies, such as placing the newts amongst lizards, calling whales and 
porpoises fish, a blind-worm a snake, and so on. 
On July 8, about two dozen members of the Children’s Section visited the 
Flower Show of the Wood Green Horticultural Society, in charge of Miss Grint, 
Secretary of the Section. 
On Saturday, July 15, a number of Associates and friends of the Branch had 
a pleasant ramble at St. Alban’s, Mr. W. Percival Westell, F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U., 
acting as guide. The various places of interest in the city were visited, after 
which the party wended its way to the “ Fighting Cocks,” which claims to be the 
oldest inhabited house in England. Here a substantial tea was provided. On 
the proposition of Mr. Hall, a vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Westell for his 
kind invitation to St. Alban’s and the pains he had taken to make the visit 
pleasant and instructive. After tea the party walked over the site of the old 
Roman City of Verulamium, and inspected the remains of the old walls. The 
party was much impressed with thoughts of the contrast between nearly two 
thousand years ago and the present time — now, all the beauty of rural simplicity ; 
then, the noisy hum and bustle of a large important Roman city. 
