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subjects to stimulate the intelligence of 

 the young. 



The resolution was carried unanimously, 

 as was also a motion, brought forward by 

 ]\Ir. F. Spriggs, calling for more efficient 

 methods to prevent the taking and caging 

 of wild song-birds during the winter 

 months as well as through the summer. 

 This was seconded by the President. 



A special feature of the gathering was 

 the presentation by Her Grace of the 

 Inter-County Bird and Tree Shield to 

 Leicester Road Council School, Bedworth 

 (Warwickshire). The school was repre- 

 sented by its Head Master, Mr. J. Edwin 

 Cooper, ]\Irs. Cooper, and four members 

 of the Team. 



The meeting concluded with a vote of 

 thanks to the Duchess of Portland, 

 moved by Sir John Cockburn and 

 seconded by Sir William Portal. 



A full account of the proceedings will 

 appear in the Society's Annual Report. 



COUNCIL MEETING 



Sir Montagu Sharpe, K.C. (Chairman), 

 presided at the meeting of the Council of 

 the Society at the Guildhall, Westminster, 

 on February 2nd, 1923. 



The Report of the Hon. Secretary 

 alluded to the deep regret with which 

 news had been received of the death of 

 Mr. Trevor-Battye, Member of the Council 

 since 1905, and a vote of sympathy and 

 condolence with the Misses Trevor-Battye 

 was passed. The issue of a renewed 

 Order for Hampshire, protecting all wild 

 birds' eggs on Lord Selborne's sanctuary 

 at Oakhanger, was reported ; and also 

 an amended Order for East Yorks, giving 

 protection to the eggs of the Fulmar 

 Petrel, which nested on the Yorkshire 

 coast last year. The Council expressed 

 their desire to support Miss Cochrane 's 

 effort to seciu-e all the year protection for 

 the Skylark in Cambridgeshire. Fifteen 

 lectures, illustrated by the Society's 

 slides, had been given, and several Bird 

 and Tree Festivals held. 



The Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee presented the Statement of 

 Accounts for the year 1922. The ap- 



pointment of Miss Clare Capron, Hather- 

 sage, Derby, as Hon. Local Secretary for 

 the Society, was confirmed, and the 

 following Fellows and Members were 

 elected : — 



Fellows : — Miss Hanson Caine (Hants) ; H. Carron- 

 Scrimgeour (Surrey); Herbert A. Day (Norfolk); 

 Mrs. E. K. Goddard (Wilts) ; Mrs. W. E. Harrison 

 (Staffs.); Miss M. Knight (Sussex) ;_ Mrs. F. E. 

 Marshall (Cumberland) ; Miss A. J. Partridge (Surrey) ; 

 Rev. Charles E. Raven (Surrey) ; P. W. Thompson 

 (Hants) ; William N. Walker (Fife) ; Mrs. W^hitaker 

 (Yorks.) ; T. I. A. Williams (S.W.) ; Gwynne Wither- 

 ington (Sussex). 



Members : — Miss Allen (Devon) ; Mrs. Bingham 

 (CO. Mavo) ; Miss F. S. Butler (Cornwall) ; Dr. But- 

 tikofer (Rotterdam) ; Douglas Carr (N.W.) ; E. A. 

 Constable (Birmingham) ; Mrs. George Cookson 

 (Devon) ; Mrs. Cowper (Westmorland) ; L. M. Cray- 

 fourd, Mrs. L. M. Crayfourd (W.) : Rev. Canon 

 Daustini Cremer (Sussex) ; Miss M. F. Dallas (Devon); 

 Miss M. J. Dobie (Cheshire) ; Mrs. Eland (Middlesex) ; 

 Mrs. George Evans (Devon); Mrs. Felton (S.E.); 

 Maurice Flower (Wilts) ; Leslie Foxall (Lancashire) ; 

 Miss Helen Gosse (Hants) ; Miss Catherine Graham 

 (Essex) ; Miss G. Graham (Wilts) ; Miss Georgina 

 Harris (Cheshire) ; Roland Heathcote (Lancashire) ; 

 Rev. A. H. Hildebrand (Sussex) ; Mrs. Jones Leslie 

 (Devon) ; Miss E. M. MacGregor (Lancashire) ; Miss 

 E. Mahony (Glos.) ; J. T. Marsh (Lanes.) ; Basil 

 Napier (S.W.) ; Miss Emily Newling (Cumberland) ; 

 Miss G. L. Pennington (Hants) ; Mrs. Pratt (Derby) ; 

 Mrs. Rintoul (N.W.) ; Miss M. Richardson (Glos.); 

 ]\Iiss C. C. Rogers (Cornwall) ; Miss Constance Spender 

 (Somerset) ; Miss Sutton (Worcs.) ; Miss Thomely 

 (Westmorland) ; Mrs. M. L. Twitchin (Lancashire) ; 

 Miss Alison Webster (Staffs.). 



Affiliated : — The Gilbert White Fellowship. 



Messrs. Woodbridge and Sons, having 

 kindly undertaken to act in that capacity, 

 were appointed Hon. Solicitors to the 

 Society. Mrs. Edward Clodd was elected 

 a member of the Council. Mrs. F. E. 

 Lemon reported on the conference of 

 members of the Fame Islands Associa- 

 tion, the R.S.P.B., the Society for the 

 Promotion of Nature Reserves, the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, and the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union, with reference to 

 Bird Protection on the Fame Islands. 

 Two members of the Council were ap- 

 pointed to represent the Society on the 

 International Committee for the Protec- 

 tion of Wild Birds, and delegates were 

 also appointed to attend the International 

 Congress at Paris, June, 1923. A letter 

 was read from IVIr. J. C. Moulton, Raffles 

 Museum, Singapore, with regard to the 

 trade in bird-skins, especially Paradise 

 plumes, in Singapore, and the quantity 



