SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES. 
Addition to Selborne Library. — The Librarian acknowledges with 
thanks the receipt from Mrs. Brightwen of copies of her well-known books, viz., 
“ Wild Nature Won by Kindness,” “ More about Wild Nature,” and “ Inmates 
of My House and Garden.” 
Council and Committee Meetings. — The next meetings of the Council 
will be held on June 4 and July 2 at 5.30 ; and of the Magazine and Leaflet Com- 
mittee on June 18 and July 16 at 5.30. The quarterly meeting of the Finance 
Committee will be held, on June 4, after the Council Meeting. 
Field Club Saturday Rambles. — 
/line 6. — Sanderstead and Purley Down. Victoria, 2.25 (East Croydon, 3 ; 
Sanderstead, 3.9). London Bridge members will come by 2.10 to New Croydon 
or 2.25 to East Croydon and change (East Croydon and New Croydon Stations 
are side by side). Book to Sanderstead. Tea at Fox Farm, Croham Hurst, at 
5.30. Guide, Mr. Martin. 
June 13. — Meet at Waltham at 3. Thence past the Eleanor Memorial Cross, 
through Theobalds Park, past old Temple Bar (Temple Bar removed June 13, 
1879), visiting Cheshunt Church; thence to the Great House (Wolsey’s Manor 
House) for tea, 5.30. Liverpool Street, 2.42. Day ticket, is. 6d. Guide, Mr. 
W. S. Durrant. 
June 20. — Leave Chingford Station on arrival of 2.34 train from Liverpool 
Street ; Clapton, 2.45. Thence via High Beach to Foresters’ Inn, where tea at 6 
p.m. Day tickets, Liverpool Street, is., Clapton, 8d. Liverpool Street tickets 
are available for return from Loughton ; on tickets from Clapton there is a small 
excess charge. Guide, Mr. Wattson. 
June 27. — Meet at Gomshall Station at 3. Thence ramble by Gomshall 
Marsh, Paddington Mill Pond, over Evershed’s Rough to Chalk Downs. Pro- 
fessor G. S. Boulger, F. L.S., will kindly guide the party. London Bridge, 1.38. 
Cannon Street, 1.35. Return fare, 4s. It is hoped that as many members as 
possible will join the ramble, which is in connection with the Shere and Abinger 
Branch of the Selborne Society. 
There appears to be some doubt with regard to membership of the P'ield Club, 
and in order to remove this the Committee begs to state that all members of the 
Society, to whatever branch they may belong, are free to attend the rambles, and 
will be welcomed. Non-members can attend on payment of one shilling per 
annum, which should be paid to Mi-ss E. J. Temple, Hon. Sec. of the I'leld Club. 
NEWS FROM THE BRANCHES. 
Barmouth. — The Barmouth Branch of the Selborne Society has been very 
active this Spring. One of the members, an Alderman of the Merioneth County 
Council, exerted himself to the utmost to put in force the Wild Birds’ Protection 
Acts. The resolution brought forward by him was warmly supported, but unfor- 
lunately lost by a small majority. It was, however, decided that the Ads should 
be enforced for the district of Barmouth, which is in itself a great gain. 
The Branch has taken another step which might be followed by other branches 
in places of peculiar natural beauty. It has leased from the Urban District 
Council the “ Panorama Hill,” the show spot of Barmouth, and consequently the 
spot most disfigured by picnic litter. The Society will now be able to insist upon 
the place being kept free from litter, as the management of the small refreshment 
shed will be under its control. 
A series of lectures has been given through the winter, with the object of 
beeping up interest in the Society. In March, a lecture, written by Mr. Kennedy, 
of Hailcybury College, on the “ Protection of Birds,” was read by the Hon. Sec., 
while very beautiful lantern slides, kindly lent by the Society for the Protection of 
Birds, were exhibited. 
EnwAun A. Martin, F.G.S., 
Hon. Sec. Magazine and Leaflet Conunittee. 
