Mature Motes : 
Woe Selbotne Society’s rt>aoa3tne 
No. 163. 
JULY, 1903. Vol. XIV. 
SELBORNIANA. 
The Conversazione. — Owing to the pressure under which 
our report of the Annual Meeting was produced, several regret- 
table omissions and errors occur in the list of objects exhibited. 
The photographs attributed to Mr. Martin, on p. 113, were 
shown by Mr. William Farren. Mrs. Brightwen sent a series 
of accurately painted drawings of various birds, which elicited 
frequent expressions of admiration. Miss Ellen G. Hill, of 
Frognal, exhibited a picture of “ The Wakes,” as it was in the 
time of Professor Bell, painted by herself. Mr. G. H. Wattson 
showed various living specimens of tortoises, lizards and snakes, 
including Testudo gmca, Emys orbicularis, Chrysemys pic-ta, C. 
concinna, Lacerta ocellata, Tropidonotus natrix male and female, 
T. fasciatus and T. tesselalus. In the small room off the corridor 
there was an exhibition of microscopes, kindly lent by Messrs. 
J. E. Cooper, E. C. Goulton, Alfred E. Hilton, F. Rousselet, 
Charles West, C. H. E. West and E. Hinton. 
By the kindness of Messrs. Moore and Moore, of Bishopsgate 
Street Within, an excellent programme of music was performed 
on the first floor. In addition to supplying the grand piano, and 
arranging the items, which were performed by expert but 
anonymous musicians, Messrs. Moore and Moore supplied a 
Simplex Pneumatic Piano Player, with the assistance of which 
the accompaniments were rendered. 
A Protest. — We have received the following letter from 
Mr. E. A. Martin, F.G.S. : — 
Many of your readers who were at the Conversazione on May 3 no doubt 
noticed an exhibit of birds imported from India, which were said to be injurious 
to agriculture, the object of the exhibitor being, it was reported, to obtain the 
partial withdrawal of the order of the Indian Government which prohibited the 
export of birdskins and plumage for millinery purposes. As I acted as lion. Sec. 
