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NATURE NOTES 
Winter Meetings of the Society. 
Saturday, November ii. — Natural History Museum, *Cromwell Road, S.W. 
Meet in the Central Hall at 2.15. Professor G. S. Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S., will 
give a demonstration. 
Saturday, November 18. — Visit to the Hall of the Salters’ Company, St. 
Swithin’s Lane, E.C. Assemble at 3 p.m. 
Guide, S. W. Luard, Esq., Clerk to the Company. 
Saturday, November 25. — Visit to a City Fur and Skin Warehouse. Meet 
33 ) Queen Street, Cheapside, at 2 p.m. Mr. C. M. Miihlberg will give 
a demonstration on “ Zoology in Every-day Life.” 
Saturday, December g. — Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, S.W. 
Meet in Central Hall at 2.15 for 2.30. Dr. C. W. Andrews will give a 
demonstration on Fossil Mammals. 
H. H. Poole, 
Hon. Sec. Excursions Committee. 
Annual Dinner. — For several reasons it has been decided not to arrange 
a dinner this year. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Dr. John C. Thorowgood. — Xylaria polymorpha, Grev., a pyreno- 
mycetous fungus. 
Ida M. Roper. — Clavaria inequalis, FI. Dan., one of the Hymenomycetes. 
M. G. B. — The “Hazel-hen,” Tetrastes bonasia, is a grouse, but little larger 
than the common partridge. It enjoys a wide range, e,vtending over Europe and 
North and Central Asia. Pine forests, birch woods and hazel copses in the 
wildest mountain districts form its habitat. Large numbers of Hazel-hens are 
captured yearly in Sweden, and it is from this source that our market is supplied. 
The name Hazel-/i«« is, I suppose, on all fours with Moor-//««, Water-//r«, 
Heath-/r«K, and Zfi?«-harrier. 
W. P. Pycraft. 
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