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Bird Notes and News 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



COUNCIL MEETING 



The quarterly meeting of the Council was held 

 at the Guildhall, Westminster, S.W., on May 

 5th, 1922, Sir Montagu Sharpe, K.C., presiding. 



The Report of the Hon. Secretary referred 

 with very great regret to the death, on April 

 21st, of Captain Suckling, R.N., of Highwood, 

 Romsey, an old friend and Vice-President 

 of the Society, who co-operated most 

 sympathetically in the work, known to all 

 humanitarians, carried on by Mrs. Suckling, 

 Hon. Secretary for the Society in the New 

 Forest. Captain Suckling held the afiection 

 and esteem of all who knew him. It was 

 unanimously agreed that a letter expressing 

 the deep sympathy of the Council be sent to 

 Mrs. Suckling. 



The Report proceeded, after reference to the 

 Annual Meeting and Annual Report of the 

 Society, to give particulars of the new Bird 

 Protection Orders issued for Devonshire, East 

 Suffolk, Norwich (C.B.), Argyll, Dumfries, 

 Lanark, Nairn, Orkney, Renfrew and Stirling. 

 A large proportion of these are concerned with 

 the better protection of the Lapwing. Nairn 

 protects Redpoll and Siskin and Renfrew the 

 Linnet and Robin, all the year. In Devon 

 numerous alterations and additions have been 

 made to the several schedules, and Sunday 

 protection is given. A long " black list " is 

 an unfortunate feature of the Order. In 

 East Suffolk the principal feature consists in 

 the area Orders, by which all taking or killing 

 of birds and all taking of eggs is prohibited 

 on the coast between the sea and the River 

 Ore, from Aldeburgh to Orford Haven. In this 

 district notice-boards for the purpose of 

 safeguarding the birds were put up by the 

 Society last year, by permission of the Air 

 Ministry, and the new Order is the result of an 

 application from the Society and its Local 

 Hon. Sec, Mrs. Edward Clodd. 



Thirty lectures, illustrated by the Society's 

 slides, had been given. 



A well-known supporter of the Society had 

 written expressing his desire for the extension 

 of the Bird and Tree Scheme in Elementary 

 Schools, and offering very generous assistance. 

 He expressed a strong opinion that the best 

 way to counteract the destruction of bird life, 

 likely to be increased by the cutting up of 

 large estates, is to inculcate in the children of 

 the people, while young and impressionable, a 



love for and admiration of wild bird life ; he 

 believes the Bird and Tree Competition can 

 be so developed as to accomplish this to a 

 great extent, thereby powerfully contributing 

 to the preservation of the birds of Great 

 Britain. It was resolved that the best thanks 

 of the Council be expressed to the writer, who 

 does not wish his name to appear, and that 

 everything possible be done to extend the 

 work on the lines he would most approve. 



The Finance and General Purposes Com- 

 mittee presented the Financial Statement for 

 the quarter, and the Accounts for payment. 

 A legacy of £20 had been received under the 

 will of the late Miss J. A. O'Connor. The 

 Society had to regret the death of Miss Emily 

 Spender, Hon. Local Secretary for Bath, an 

 enthusiastic lover of birds and keen supporter 

 of the work. Miss Spender joined the Society 

 in 1908 and had been a Fellow since 1914. 

 Miss Ida Norman had consented to carry on 

 the work. 



Mrs. F. E. Baines had been compelled, 

 through leaving London, to relinquish the 

 Secretaryship for Hampstead, which she had 

 held since 1913. Miss A. M. Christian would, 

 it was hoped, undertake it. 



Mr. Everard Gilbert-Cooper, who has already 

 done much to advance the aims of the Society 

 by lectures and in other ways, was elected 

 Hon. Secretary for the Hampton district of 

 Middlesex. 



Mr. W. Wailes Strang revives the Hon. 

 Secretaryship for Keswick, which has been 

 in abeyance for some time. 



The following Fellows and Members were 

 elected : — 



Fellows : Misa Ethel Allport, Mrs. Brighen 

 Anderson, E. F, Benson, Major Godl'rey Burrell, Miss 

 Clare J. Capron, Henry Coates, F.S.A., Scot., George 

 A. Cove, Arthur E. Gill, J. R. Grocott, Sir Arthur 

 H. J. Lees, Bart,, Miss Viola Meeking, Col. R. Meinertz- 

 hagen, R. T. Morris, Sir Herbert Nield, K.C., M.P., 

 Rev. A. P. Pott, Mrs. Pullar, Lt.-Col. Roberts, Lady 

 Rolleston, David M. Shorrocks, Mrs. Stirling Stent, 

 Major M. Teichman-Derville, O.B.E., F.R.G.S., Sir 

 Hamo Thomycroft, R.A., Lady Walker, Frederick J. 

 Waydelin, Henry H. Whitehead, J.P. 



Life Fellow : W. J. F. Williamson, C.M.G. 



Members : Mrs. Morland Agnew, Edgar Allwright, 

 H. Barber, Mrs. Owen Barnard, Mrs. Bedale, W. P. 

 Bellamy, Miss Beveridge, Mrs. Blanford, Mrs. J. A. 

 Bolton, John Buchan, Miss E. J. Bullock, Mrs. Burton, 

 Allan Gordon Cameron, Keith Cameron, Miss Carter, 

 Misa L, Cattley, Miss Beatrice Chase, Major W. B. 

 Coney, W. Corlett, Miaa Mabel Cotterell, O.B.E., Mrs. 

 Courtney, F, 0. Craine, Miss M. E. Darby, Misa 



