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Bird Notes and News 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



COUNCIL MEETING 



The Council of the Society held their 

 quarterly meeting at the Guildhall, West- 

 minster, on July 20th, 1923, Sir Montagu 

 Sharpe, K.C. (Chairman), in the chair. 



The Report of the Hon. Secretary 

 stated that a circular letter had been 

 sent to Borough Councils in England 

 and Wales suggesting the provision of 

 bird-sanctuaries in public parks and 

 gardens, on the lines of those instituted 

 in the Royal Parks ; a large number of 

 sympathetic replies had been received. 



A letter from the Clerk to the Metro- 

 politan Water Board was read, notifying 

 formally the abandonment of shooting 

 on the Walthamstow reservoirs. Bird 

 Protection Orders had been issued for 

 Barrow-in-Furness (consoUdating and 

 amending those of 1918 and 1921, and 

 renewing the protection of all eggs on 

 Walney Island), and for Hastings (renew- 

 ing protection of eggs in areas already pro- 

 tected and adding St. Leonard's Gardens). 

 Seven lectures had been given with the 

 Society's slides as illustrations, by Mr. 

 Masefield, Mr. T. Johnson, H.M.I., Mr. 

 H. H. Wardle, Mr. W. S. Peach, and 

 Mr. A. S. G. Mardon. Reports were 

 presented of the meetings of the Inter- 

 national Bird Protection Committee and 

 the International Nature - Protection 

 Congress. 



The statement of accounts, furnished 

 by the Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee, showed that £400 had been 

 received as a final sum from the Execiitors 

 of the late Mrs. E. Phillips. The Hon. 

 Secretary presented a statement showing 

 the present financial position of the 

 Society and the probable expenditure 

 for the year in the various departments 

 of the work. Deep regret was expressed 

 at the sudden death on June 9th of 

 Mr. W. B. Urwin, H.M.I., Hon. Secretary 

 for Birmingham ; Mr. Urwin took special 

 interest in the Bird and Tree scheme, 

 and through his influence several large 

 Birmingham schools had entered and 



done remarkably weU. A most sym- 

 pathetic letter to the Society was found 

 on his table, one of the last he wrote. 

 It was directed that a letter of condolence 

 should be sent to Mrs. Urwin. The 

 death was also reported of Miss Georgina 

 Wolfe, Hon. Secretary for Southsea since 

 1 90 7 . The following Fellows and Members 

 were elected : — 



Fellows : — Roland Antrobus (Warwick) ; Col- 

 Stanley Barry (S.W.) ; Miss Beveridge (Edinburgh) i 

 Miss Gladys Caird (N.W.) ; Miss Mary Carson (Kent) ; 

 Miss S. L. Chambers (Staffs) ; Mrs. Dan vers -Nevill 

 (Kent) ; H. A. Davidson (Cumberland) ; J. M. Dent 

 (W.C.) ; Charles E. Fletcher (Kent) ; Mrs. Robert 

 Fuller (Wilts) j Mrs. G. C. Garrick (Surrey) ; Mrs. 

 Hugh Hunter (S.W.) : Miss Kenning (S.E.) ; E. J. 

 Lovegrove (N.) ; J. H. R. Nicholl (Herts) ; Cecil 

 Norman (S.W.) ; Mrs. Steele Park (Hants) ; Clarence 

 D, Smith (Northumberland) ; Miss Streatfeild (Sussex); 

 Sir George Sutton, Bt. (Kent) ; Herbert L. Thowless 

 (U.S.A.) ; Miss Sybil Waller (Hants) ; Pickford 

 Waller (Hants) ; Miss M. A. Watson (S.W.) ; W. Weed 

 (Kent) : Arnold S. White (Cheshire) ; Mrs. C. A. 

 White (Herts); Mrs. W. Don (Forfar). 



Members : — A. Allsebrook (Sussex) ; Mrs. H. C. 

 Anstey (Staffs) ; Miss Barker (Surrey) ; Brother 

 Finn Barr (Yorks) ; Charles S. Bayne (Sussex) ; 

 F. G. Beckett (Sussex) ; Miss R. F. Bere (Devon) 

 Edward E. Berry (Italy) ; Miss Esme Bingham (Hants) ; 

 Tom Bomford (Somerset) ; J. W. Boothroyd (E.) ; 

 Miss Jane Boschetti (Qlos) ; Miss A. C. Bryson (Wilts) ; 

 Miss N. Burrage (Norfolk) ; Mrs. C. R. Buxton (N.W.) ; 

 John Caasidy (Lanes) ; Mrs. Chamberlayne (Warwick) ; 

 P. G, Cheek (Middx.) ; Miss A. H. Coates 

 (Worcs) ; Miss Alice Evans (Cornwall) ; Norman 

 Fifield (Surrey); G. W. Finn (Kent); B. F. 

 Fletcher (N.) ; Hon. Charles Forester (W.) ; T. 

 Brereton Foster (Surrey) ; Willoughby Gardner 

 (Wales) ; Miss M. Gepp (Essex) ; Miss F. B. Glennie 

 (Hereford) ; Sir George Macpherson Grant, Bt. (Scot- 

 land) ; Mrs. J. H. Grant (Sussex) ; Miss B. E. Greville 

 (Suffolk) ; Miss Hanson (N.) ; E. J. Harrison (Lanes) ; 

 Miss F. Hayward (Sussex) ; Miss I. Nora Hill (Middx.) ; 

 Robert Howard (Kent) ; Miss Howson (Derby) ; 

 A. R. Hughes (Lanes) ; Mrs. C. W. Huson (Hereford) ; 

 Miss Alice James (Wales) ; Miss D. James, Miss M, 

 James (Bucks) ; Captain J. N. Kennedy (S.W.) ; 

 Miss Elsie Kitching (Westmorland) ; Miss M. N. 

 Kirkby (Staffs) ; Mrs. John Large (Hants) ; Rev. Dr. 

 Wm. McConachie (Berwick); Miss Amy Mansfield; 

 Edmund H. Martin (E.C.) ; Miss Mason (Yorks); 

 Mrs. Morgan (Kent); Miss M. R. Moor (Com- 

 waU); 0. H. Payne (N.W.) ; Miss Mable Peake (Glos) j 

 Thomas Plowman (Middx.) ; Mrs. Fitzwalter Plumptre 

 (Kent) ; Mrs. Pott, Miss Gladys Pott (S.W.) ; Rev. H. 

 Ingamells Powell (Cornwall) ; Henry Prestoe (Sussex) ; 

 Miss F. A, RandeU (Yorks) ; Miss Clarice Reed (Dur- 

 ham) ; Mies W. F. Retter, Lionel E. Retter (Somerset) ; 

 Mrs. Wm. Rowland (Surrey) ; Arthur L. Salmon 

 (Glos) ; Mrs. M. M. Scott (Hants) ; Miss E. C. Sims 

 (Kent) ; Rev. A. R. Simpson (Kent) ; Miss E. L. 



