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mote the Nature-Study movement will meet with the ready 
sympathy and support of all interested in a branch of education 
so full of promise.” 
The School Nature-Study Union. — This Union, the Hon. 
Secretary of which is the Rev. Claude Hinscliff, of 220, Cable 
Street, London, E., is being formed among teachers and others 
who recognise the educational value of Nature-Study, and the 
desirability of some concerted action for promoting it on definite 
lines. The Union seeks to gain public interest and support 
whereby to encourage School “ Journeys,” Exhibitions and 
Flower Shows, and to establish such institutions as local School 
Botanic Gardens for practical study and work. 
It is further proposed to publish monthly an official organ 
of the Union, a “ Nature Study Review,” through the medium 
of which all communications may be dealt with, and meetings 
convened. Members are asked to pay a subscription of two 
shillings for the current year, and will receive the Review upon 
publication. 
A start has been made by organising visits to London Museums, 
and help is solicited in the way of donations, volunteer guides 
for school journeys, and botanical and geological specimens on 
loan for schools. Those children who love Nature and are pos- 
sessed of pocket money are invited to band together to help 
their less-fortunately circumstanced fellows. 
The Un-Selbornian Parson. — An unpleasant contrast to 
the article we print on another page is afforded by the Devon- 
shire Rector, whose advertisement, offering to supply “ beau- 
tiful Devonshire ferns from the borders of Dartmoor in lots of 
15 and 20,” has been pilloried by Mr. W. J. Richards in The 
Western Morning News. 
Better Late than Never. — An effort is being made in 
Cobham. Surrey, to put a stop to wild birds being snared and 
killed on Sundays. Cobham is one of thirteen parishes in the 
county where this is permitted to be done, and, in consequence, 
each Sunday brings a host of bird-catchers from London, who 
play havoc amongst the small birds. Resolutions have been 
passed by the Parish Council in favour of putting a stop to this 
serious state of things, and the County Council have petitioned 
the Home Secretary to include the district in the order 
prohibiting the snaring and killing of wild birds on Sunday. — 
Ipswich Evening Star. 
Obituary. — We are very sorry to have to chronicle the 
death of Miss C. Barnard, one of the most single-minded workers 
for animals whom we have known. Her special work was at 
