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REPORT. 
branches, and names and addresses of the local Honorary Secretaries. 
The publishers are willing to supply back numbers of the Society’s 
magazine gratis for distribution at local meetings, or to serve as specimen 
copies. 
The Council again tenders its cordial thanks to Mr. James Britten, 
F.L.S., for the ability with which he has edited the Society’s magazine. 
Nature Notes. The favourable notices and frequent extracts which are 
given in the press (the source of which is still, at times, not acknowledged) 
testify to the increasing value and interest of the magazine. The Council 
wishes also to thank the large number of members who have voluntarily 
contributed articles and notes. 
A suggestion has been made that it would further the interests of the 
Society if articles in the magazine were reprinted in parish magazines 
and the like ; and the Council will be glad to hear from any member 
willing to obtain in this way a greater publicity for useful articles. 
The last page of the magazine, which from January, 1894, has been 
set apart for official notices and for news from the branches, is acknow- 
ledged to be a popular and interesting feature of the magazine. At the 
same time the Council would invite the Branch Secretaries to make 
greater use of it and to forward notices of any local work likely to be of 
general interest. 
It is regretted that the time has not yet come when the Council can 
fulfil its promise to enlarge the magazine, but when that time does arrive, 
it is evident that some considerable portion of the space will have to be 
devoted to thus recording the work of the central organisation, of the 
branches, and of the Society generally. 
The Society’s Field Club organised last season a series of twenty-three 
rambles, which were a source of much pleasure and instruction to the 
members who took part in them. The number of people attending them 
has varied greatly, partly owing to the weather, partly to the locality. 
The meetings at Theydon Bois, Waltham Cross and Winchmore Hill 
attracted the greatest number of members. The area visited has been 
on an average within sixteen miles round London, but the distances were 
very varia 1 )le. Ware, Virginia Water, Effingham and Boxhill being the 
most distant from, and Richmond and Tottenham the nearest to, 
London. 
On June 15 Waltham Abbey was exjdored, and a most interesting 
historical and literary account of the Abbey and neighbourhood read. 
Whitchurch and Edgware, where Handel lived, were visited on May 25. 
Some fine frescoes on the wall of Chaldon Church were inspected on 
July 13. At this ramble Professor Boulger, who kindly guided the party 
from Merstham to Coulsdon, gave a pa])er on “ Herb Paris.” In one of 
the rambles Whitton Park was visited, and the fine exotic trees and 
shrubs that were planted there upwards of one hundred years ago were 
inspected. 
It is hoped that the P'ield Club of the Selbornc Society has been able 
to contribute a little to a wider knowledge, at any rate, of some branches 
of Natural History. Arrangements are being made to continue these 
