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NATURE NOTES 
The resolution was carried with acclamation. 
Lord Avebury in responding said he felt he could not do 
all he wished because he had so many other duties, but so long 
as the Society had such good officers it would not suffer much 
on his account. He knew he expressed the feelings of the 
members when he invited those who were not members to become 
so. He again thanked the meeting for the resolution and also 
offered his thanks to Miss Corelli for her interesting address, 
and expressed a hope that her efforts might be successful. 
In the Conversazione that followed an interesting collection 
of land and freshwater shells was exhibited by Miss A. S. Phil- 
pott, and accompanying them were some snails’ eggs and shells 
shown by Mr. W. M. Webb. Mr. Webb also showed some 
living blind worms or legless lizards. A number of pressed 
botanical specimens were lent by Mr. Matthew Hunt, and 
these were worthy of more detailed attention than it was possible 
to give them in the course of a single evening. Mr. R. Marshman 
Wattson exhibited an excellent collection of dragon-flies, whilst 
fish life was represented by a specimen of the curious parrot 
fish, and others, shown by Mr. C. M. Hailes. Madame Templeton 
sent for exhibition some nature-trimmed birdless hats, illus- 
trating what can be done in this direction without the aid of 
feathers. Messrs Cassell and Co. sent an exhibit containing 
original water-colour drawings of many of the illustrations 
reproduced in their nature books, together with many of the 
books themselves. Some interesting fossils and minerals were 
lent b}' Mr. F. Downing and Mr. E. A. Martin, and the Children’s 
department of the Humanitarian League sent some specimen 
lectures and natural history pamphlets. 
A small loan collection of Nature photographs was one of 
the new features at this year’s meeting, and as a beginning it 
held out the hope that at the next annual meeting of the Society 
an exhibition of Nature photographs could be arranged which 
would be one of the prominent features of the Conversazione. 
Among those who exhibited we note first. Mr. Douglas English, 
the author of “ Photography for Naturalists,” who verj’ kindly 
exhibited photographic pictures of the polecat, dormouse, 
squirrel and harvest mouse ; also about 150 slides which com- 
prised a complete series of the thirteen indigenous British rep- 
tiles, including the successive stages of newts and Batrachians 
from the egg, also a complete series of British Muridce, and a 
complete series of Rodentia, bar the hares, along with a selection 
of mammals, fish and insects. We learn that Mr. English hopes 
in due course to complete his series of photographs of the British 
terrestrial mammals on the same lines as his series of British 
reptiles. Generally speaking, his photographs show that he 
endeavours to secure pictures of his subjects in their chief 
characteristic attitudes and amid characteristic surroundings. 
