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NATURE NOTES 
FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
Council and Committee Meetings. 
Monday, December ii. — Publications Committee at 5.30 p.m. 
Monday, January 8. — Publications Committee, 5.30 p.m. 
Tuesday , January 23. — Council Meeting at 5.30 p.m. 
Winter Meetings of the Society. 
Saturday, December 9. — The meeting at the Natural History Museum 
arranged for this day has been postponed, so that members may attend the 
Autumn Meeting of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies (to which 
the Selhorne Society is affiliated). It will take the form of a visit to the City 
of London, Guildhall, Library and Museum, under the direction of C. Welch, 
Esq., F.S.A., the Librarian. Assemble at the entrance porch of the Guildhall 
at 2.45 p.m. Tea will be arranged for in one of the rooms, and those requiring, 
tickets must write at once to Mr. H. Norman Gray, 131, Earlham Grove, Forest 
Gate, E., enclosing a remittance of is. each. After December 7 the charge for 
tea tickets will be is. 6d. each. 
As this is a new departure on the part of the Union, it is hoped that members 
of the Selborne Society will make a point of being present. 
Clapton Branch. — The next meeting of the Branch will be held on December 
16, when Mr. R. Marshman Wattson will give a lecture on “Stones of English 
History” (.second series), with Lantern Illustrations. 
All communicatiotis -with regard to the winter meetings of the Society should he 
addressed to Mr. H. H. Poole, Honorary Secretary oj the Excursions Committee, 
at 20, Hanover Square, W. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
R. Rozelaar. — A dead body or skeleton of a plant or an animal remains 
vegetable or animal respectively as long as it retains its organic form. When 
disintegrated it becomes mineral matter. The direct answer to your question, 
therefore, depends on the character of the soil in which burial took place ; but 
I should expect animal form to be still recognisable. 
J. B. — Evelyn’s “Sylva” is not now in print in any edition; but can be 
obtained second-hand. Hunter’s edition is the best. 
A. M. Greenwood. — Aristolochia clematitis might be obtained at Messrs. 
Ware’s, Feltham, Middlesex. It is hardy. The two other species are not in 
any nurserymen’s catalogues which we have at hand. We will write more in 
detail. 
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