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Joan Reid, Mrs. Richards, J. B, R attar, Rear- Admiral 

 Reeves, Ernest Roberts, Miss Robinson, Miss Helen 

 G. Romer, A. M. Rope, Miss Catherine Sharpe, Edgar C, 

 Smith, Miss Ethel A. Shipman, Miss Woodd Smith, 

 Miss Bertha Wood Smith, Mrs. Stephens, Miss M. 

 Stephens, George Stockwell, F. E. Stokes, M.D., D.P.H. 

 John Taylor, Miss Taylor, Miss Joan Thompson, 

 Claud V. Ticehnrst, M.D., Miss Octavia Townsend, 

 Miss Troast, Mrs. Verner, Miss V. Vicars, Samuel 

 Walkden, Mrs. Seymour Walkden, Mrs. W. L. Waugh, 

 Colonel W. H.F. Weber. C.M.G., D.S.O., R. G. Weston, 

 Miss S. Wilberforce, James Willcocks, Miss Vera 

 Williams. Harold E. Witham. 



Life Fellow : Mis. Hector McLean. 



Life Members : W. E. Candy, John Hamer, 

 George Hubbard. 



The extended report of the Watchers' 

 Committee for the two years 1921-22, 

 published in detail for issue to subscribers 

 to the Fund, was presented ; and the 

 reports of meetings of the Watchers' 

 Committee on October 20th, and of the 

 Publicity Committee on December 6th, 

 were reported. 



Business with reference to the Inter- 

 national Committee for the Protection of 

 Wild Birds, the H.O. Wild Birds Advisory 

 Committee, the London Park Sanctuaries 

 and other matters was dealt with, and 

 the issue of a leaflet on the formation of 

 bird-sanctuaries on public or private land, 

 was considered, 



OBITUARY 



The Society has sustained another heavy 

 loss in the death, at Las Palmas, on 

 December 22nd. 1922, of Mr. Aubyn B. R. 

 Trevor-Battye, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., 

 of Ashford Chace, Petersfield. ^Ir. Trevor- 

 Battye, who was an accomplished zoo- 

 logist, botanist and writer, was best 

 known in the scientific world as the 

 first Englishman to explore Kolguev 

 Island, in Barent's Sea, off the north-west 

 coast of Russia, in 1894 ; he was an 

 extensive traveller, also, in other lands, 

 was zoologist to the Conway Arctic 

 Expedition in 1896, and made a special 

 study of nature and scenery in Crete. 

 Author of " Icebound on Kolguev," 

 " A Northern Highway of the Czar," 

 " Camping in Crete," and " Pictures in 

 Prose." He was editor-in-chief of natural 

 history for the Victoria History of the 

 Counties of England, and for some time 



proprietor and editor of " The Artist." 

 Always a close student of bird-Hfe, 

 Mr. Trevor-Battye edited Lord Lilford's 

 work on birds in 1903, and joined the 

 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 

 in 1905, being elected a member of the 

 Council almost immediately and retaining 

 his seat until his death. He was also a 

 thoroughly sympathetic member of the 

 Watchers' Committee. One of the gifts 

 of his pen to the Society was the poem 

 " Christmas in the Lines, 1917," pub- 

 lished as an inset to the greeting-card of 

 that year and afterwards set to music. 

 His charming personality will be no less 

 missed than his ornithological knowledge. 

 Mr. Trevor-Battye, who was a son of 

 the Rev. W. Wilberforce Battye, of 

 Tingrith Manor, Beds, and Little Hamp- 

 den, Bucks, was 67 years of age, and had 

 been in ill-health for some years ; it may 

 be doubted whether he ever fully 

 recovered from the privations of his 

 winter on Kolguev. 



Never perhaps have six months in the 

 Society's history brought so many losses 

 of influential and enthusiastic supporters. 

 It has lost three distinguished members 

 of its Council — jVIr. Hudson, Mr. Bonhote 

 and Mr. Trevor-Battye ; and among 

 others who will be keenly missed are 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, of Keswick Hall, 

 Norwich, Norfolk's eminent and leading 

 ornithologist, who died on November 

 8th ; Mrs. Lloyd Theakston, of Barmouth, 

 ever an enthusiast on behalf of the weak, 

 a champion of humane causes, and one 

 of the most ardent and helpful workers 

 for the cause of the birds in Wales 

 (October 8th) ; the Rev. D. Edmondes 

 Owen, Vicar of Llandovery-, who, like Mrs. 

 Theakston, combined ornithological with 

 archaeological interests ; Mr. A. K. Loyd, 

 K.C. ; Lady Herdman ; and Mrs. Irene 

 Osgood, the novelist, whose grounds at 

 Guilsborough Hall were a very paradise 

 for the birds she loved to encourage and 

 protect. In Virginia, where she was 

 born, Mi's. Osgood founded " Christmas 

 parties for the birds," which she intro- 

 duced in her English home, and she was 

 part author of " The Winged Anthology." 



