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Bird Notes and News 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The 21st Annual Meeting of the Society- 

 was held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, 

 S.W., on March 5th, 1912. The Duke 

 of Rutland presided. There was a large 

 attendance. The Medals and other awards 

 made in the PubHc-school Competition 

 and in the Protection of Crops Competi- 

 tion were presented. An account of the 

 proceedings is published with the Society's 

 Annual Report. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



The Council of the Society met at the 

 Offices, 23, Queen Anne's Gate, S.W., on 

 January 26th, 1912, when there were 

 present : Mr. Montagu Sharpe, Chairman 

 (in the chair), Mr. J. L. Bonhote, Miss 

 Clifton, Dr. Drewitt, the Hon. Mrs. 

 Drewitt, Miss Hall, the Hon. Mrs. 

 Henniker, Mr. Hastings Lees, Mr. F. E. 

 Lemon (Hon. Secretary), Mrs. F. E. 

 Lemon, Mr. Meade Waldo, Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Miss Pollock and Captain Tailby, 

 and Miss Gardiner (Secretary). 



Hon. Secretary's Report. 



The Hon. Secretary's Report dealt 

 with the Essays received on the Protec- 

 tion of Crops and the arrangements made 

 for judging them ; with the parade of 

 sandwich-men exhibiting placards of 

 "The Story of the Egret" in London 

 West-end streets, December 11-23 ; and 

 with the offer of Nesting-boxes for London 

 Parks made to the Bailiff of the Royal 

 Parks and the Chief Officer of the Parks 

 Department of the London County Council. 

 The Society's lantern-sHdes had been 

 used for the illustration of thirteen 

 lectures since December Ist. Bird Pro- 



tection Orders had been issued for Corn- 

 wall, Devonshire, Middlesex, Monmouth, 

 Northumberland, and the North Riding 

 of Yorkshire. 



Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee. 



The Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee presented the finance state- 

 ment for 1911, which had been duly 

 audited and found correct, together with 

 accounts recommended for payment. The 

 resignation of the Hon. F. S. 0' Grady 

 as Hon. Local Secretary for Derbyshire, 

 rendered unavoidable by his removal 

 from the county, was received with much 

 regret and a vote of thanl?;s was accorded 

 him for his valuable help given to the 

 Society for ten years. The following 

 Fellows and Members were elected : — 



Fellows. — Rev. J. Hare Beevor (Wrexham), 

 T. H. Briggs (Lynmouth), Victor Forbin 

 (Paris), Miss Gilmour (Great Malvern), Mrs. 

 Lines (Hands worth), Mrs. McMillan (London, 

 W.), F. E. Marshall (Keswick), Sir Daniel 

 Parkes Masson, CLE. (Edinburgh), Mrs. 

 Rackham (Cambridge), Miss Helen Stewart 

 (Chfton), Mrs. WHson (Edgbaston). 



Members. — ^Mrs. Allhusen (Beaconsfield) , 

 Alfred Bellamy (Grantham), J. J. Brigg 

 (Keighley), H. P. Burdett (Wellingborough), 

 Miss Carr (Kensington, W.), Mrs. Robert 

 Cook (Grimsby), Mrs. K. Cooper (Kensington, 

 W.), Mrs. E. Stafford Charles (Stanmore), 

 Miss S. Evans (Kenilworth), S. E. Evans 

 (Doncaster), Miss A. P. Fox (Welliagton, 

 Som.), Mrs. Greenwood (Brighton), C. A. H. 

 Harrison (Staly bridge), Admiral Sir Reginald 

 Henderson, K.C.B. (Eastry), Miss E. D. HiU 

 (Cheltenham), Miss Hodge (Highbury, N.), 

 H. Brook HoUinshead (Godalming), Miss 

 L. Hunt (Worthing), Mrs. Key (Kenilworth), 

 Miss Manson (Edinburgh), R. W. May 

 (Brixton, S.W.), Rev — Paul (Cheddar), 

 Miss Edith Pollock (Putney, S.W.), Percy 



