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NATURE NOTES 
She suggests that some of our workers may like to avail 
themselves of the opportunity to purchase, for their own use, 
some of the surplus slides at half-price, particulars of which can 
be obtained by writing to Miss Wade, at the Animals' Friend 
Office, 6, York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 
Swanley Horticultural College. — A crowded and influ- 
ential drawing-room meeting in connection with this College, 
was held by permission of Lord Brassey at his house in Park 
Lane, on October 28, Lady Brassey being in the Chair. An 
address was given by Mr. A. D. Hall, of Rothamsted, and a 
resolution proposed by Sir John Hibbert, and seconded by Mr. 
J. C. Medd, calling upon the Government to apportion some of 
the Board of Agriculture Grant to colleges of horticulture and 
agriculture for women students, was carried unanimously. 
THE NATURE STUDY EXHIBITION. 
was most fitting, the members of the Selborne Society 
took an active part in promoting the Home Counties 
Nature-Study Exhibition which has just been held 
with such success. The following were the delegates, 
officially appointed by the Council, to serve on the General 
Committee : Mr. George Abbott, Mr. George Avenell, Professor 
Hulme, Mr. A. H. Macpherson, Mr. E. A. Martin, F.G.S., Dr. 
Bowdler Sharpe, and Mr. R. Marshman Wattson. No less 
than seven of the members appointed by the Middlesex Field 
Club were officers or councillors of the Selborne Society, and 
included Lord Avebury, D.C.L., F.R.S., and Mrs. Brightwen, 
F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
In the end the Selborne Society was represented on the 
Executive Committee by Mr. George Avenell (Chairman of the 
Council), Professor Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S. (Vice-President and 
Editor) ; Mrs. Percy Myles (Vice-President), Mr. Wilfred S. 
Durrant, Mr. Hedger Wallace, Mr. E. A. Martin, F.G.S. 
(Members of Council), and Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S. 
(Honorary Librarian), who acted as the Honorary Secretary of 
the Exhibition. 
By the courtesy and kindness of the Civil Service Commis- 
sioners and His Majesty’s Office of Works, the Exhibition was 
held in the offices of the former (which were once the buildings 
of the London University) in Burlington Gardens. 
A very representative series of exhibits was brought together, 
which showed that the real meaning of Nature-study is rapidly 
becoming understood. There was no overwhelming amount of 
work in school science which often poses as nature-study and in 
which systematic considerations are added to purely observa- 
tional work. The exhibition of collections was not invited 
