"Nature IRotes : 
Che Selborne Society’s fll>aoa3lne. 
No. 99. MARCH, 1898. Vol. IX. 
SELBORN IAN A. 
Nature Notes. — In the last number of this magazine there 
was a formal notice that Mr. G. S. Boulger had accepted the , 
editorship of Nature Notes, and that the April number would 
be the first edited by him. Mr. Boulger is Professor of Botany 
at the City of London College, a fellow of the Linnsean and 
Geological Societies, and the author of some valuable works 
entitled, “ The Uses of Plants, a Manual of Economic Botany ; ” 
“Familiar Trees;” “ Epping Forest and its Future Manage- 
ment;” and, in collaboration with Mr. James Britten, “A 
Biographical Index o^ British and Irish Botanists.” We venture 
to think that the readers of Nature Notes are extremely 
fortunate in possessing Professor Boulger’s services, and that 
under his direction the magazine of the Selborne Society will 
have a useful and prosperous career. A condition of success 
is, however, the generous support of such readers as are able 
to give it, and we hope that some remarks on this subject in the 
January number may be allowed to deserve a practical appli- 
cation. 
The International Congress of Zoology. — The Fourth 
International Congress of Zoology is to meet at Cambridge on 
August 23 next, under the presidency of Sir John Lubbock. 
This will be the first meeting of the Congress in the British 
Isles, and no better place could have been selected than the 
seat of the University which can claim Ray and Willoughby, and 
Charles Darwin as members. A large Reception Committee has 
been formed who hope to avail themselves of the facilities offered 
by the colleges of Cambridge for the accommodation and enter- 
tainment of visitors, while the more suitable of the public Uni- 
versity buildings will probably be also placed at their disposal. 
