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NATURE NOTES 
Field Club 
May 7. — Meet at Hanwell Station (G.W.R.) on arrival of train due at 3.12 ; 
and walk through the fields to Northolt. Tea at the Inn opposite the church. 
Paddington, 2.50 ; Ealing, 3.6; Broad Street, 2.20; Willesden Junction, 2.52. 
Guide, Mr. Ravenshaw. 
May 21. — Leave Woodside Park Station (G.N. R) on arrival of train leaving 
Moorgate Street at 2.50; King’s Cross, 3.2 ; Finsbury Park, 3.12. Thence by 
Totteridge Common to Mill Hill. Tea at “Adam and Eve,” Mill Hill. Return 
from Mill Hill Station. Guide, Mr. Carpenter. 
June 4. — Arrangements are being made to hold a united excursion with the 
S.E. Union of Scientific Societies, to Addington Park, Croydon. Detailed 
particulars will appear next month. 
All members and associates of the Selborne Society are invited to attend the 
meetings of the Field Club. The total distance walked does not exceed ten 
miles, part of the distance being traversed before and part after tea. 
Council and Committee Meetings : — 
The next meetings of the Council will be held on May 3, and June 7 at 5.30 ; 
of the Magazine and Leaflet Committee on May 17 and June 21, at 5.30. 
Important business relating to the Conversazione and the Annual Report will be 
transacted at the Council meeting on May 3. 
International Congress of Zoology.— Under the Presidency of Sir 
John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., the Congress will commence its meetings at 
Cambridge, on August 23. Detailed particulars can be obtained of the 
Secretaries, at 3, Hanover Square, London, W., who send a cordial invitation to 
members of the Selborne Society to be present at the Congress. 
South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. — Attention is drawn 
to the meetings of the above Union, which will be held in Croydon on June 2, 3 
and 4. President-elect for the year, Prof. G. S. Boulger, F.G.S., F.L.S. 
Numerous papers will be read, and excursions arranged. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
E. E. — We were in error last month. There is a Flora of Sussex, by the 
Rev. F. H. Arnold (Hamilton, Adams & Co.), 1887. 
Subscriber.— Our Country's Flowers, by W. J. Gordon (Simpkin, 
Marshall & Co. ), 6s. ; How to Study Wild Flowers, by Rev. George Henslow 
(Religious Tract Society), types only ; Flowers of the Field, by Rev. C. A. 
Johns (S.P.C.K. ), 6s., of which a new edition, by the editor of Nature Notes, 
is in the press ; and The Botanist's Pocket Book, by W. R. Hayward (Bell), 
4s. 6d., more difficult. 
N. C. W. — Your plants are (1) Ranunculus Flammula, (2) Euphorbia amyg 
daloides, (3) Euphorbia helioscopia, (4) two distinct plants, Ranunculus sce/erafus 
and Galium Aparine, (5) Rubus Chamamorus. 
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