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NATURE NOTES 
October i. — Cheshunt “Great House ’’and Church, via Waltham Cross and 
Theobald’s Park. Tea in Banqueting Hall at 5. Liverpool Street 2.15 to 
Waltham Cross (slip carriage only). Clapton is., return is. 6d. Guide, Mr. 
W. B. Gerish. 
Council and Committee Meetings : — 
The next meetings of the Council will be held on Tuesdays, September 6 and 
October 4, at 5.30; of the Magazine and Leaflet Committee on September 20 and 
October 18, at 5.30. 
Selborne Society Badges : — 
The attention of members is called to the recognised badge of the Society, 
which was designed by Mr. John Fullwood, and can be had of the Secretary, as 
follows. Prices: Brooch, 3s. ; solitaire, is. 9d. ; pin, is. 6d. ; pendant, is 6d. 
They are tastefully designed in pale blue and silver, the outlines being as shown 
in the accompanying illustration. Councillor’s badges have a crimson centre. 
They are especially useful as a means of identification between Selbornians at 
branch meetings, or at country Field Club Rambles. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
U. M. Langdon. — Your specimen was almost certainly the Rat-tailed 
Maggot, the larva, that is, of the Drone-fly, Eristalis tenax, which breeds in 
stagnant ditches. 
E. Lecky. — Your specimens are not fungi but alg.e, viz., Nos/oc, probably 
JV. commune. They are sometimes called, from their sudden appearance after a 
shower, “ falling stars,” as when Dryden makes the fairies say — 
“ And lest our leap from the sky prove too far, 
We slide on the back of a new falling star, 
And drop from above 
In a jelly of love.” 
A. P. — Your specimens were tampered with in the post, and arrived too 
smashed for identification. W. Furneaux’ Butterflies amt Moths (Longmans, 
10s. 6d.) is a good introductory book, with coloured plates of the perfect insects ; 
O. S. Wilson’s Larvcc of the British Lepidoptera and their Food-plants (Lovell 
Reeve), a more advanced work, but without illustrations of the imagines ; and 
C. G. Barrett’s Lepidoptera of the British Islands (Lovell Reeve), now appearing 
in 5s. parts, is a most complete work for the imagines, but only illustrates the 
larvae occasionally. 
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