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Bird Notes and News 



Lighthouses to prevent the destruction 

 of migrating birds. 



The Duchess of Portland, who was 

 re-elected President on the motion of 

 the Ranee of Sarawak, seconded by 

 Lord Lilford, presented the medals, 

 certificates, and books awarded in the 

 Public School Essay Competition. 



The election of the Council and other 

 officers of the Society was proposed by 

 Mr. Lawrence Hardy, M.P., seconded 

 by Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, and carried ; 

 and the proceedings closed with a vote 

 of thanks to Lord Newton and to the 

 Duchess of Portland, proposed by Sir 

 John Cockburn and seconded by Major 

 the Hon. Henry Guest, M.P. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



The Council of the Society met at the 

 Middlesex Guildhall, on January 23rd, 1914, 

 Mr. Montagu Sharpe, Chairman, presiding. 



Hon. Secretary's Report. 

 The Hon. Secretary reported that twelve 

 lectures had been given, and special thanks 

 were voted to the Hon. F. S. O'Grady for 

 arranging meetings at Bradford-on-Avon 

 and Holt, and to Mr. Masefield, for lecturing. 

 The Chairman and Hon. Secretary of the 

 Society had given evidence before the 

 Departmental Committee on the W.B.P. 

 Acts. Twenty-two Bird-and-Tree Festivals 

 had been held. 



Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee. 



The statement of accounts for 1913 was 

 presented and passed. Mr. Norman G. 

 Hadden, of Malvern, was appointed Hon. 

 Secretary for South Worcestershire. The fol- 

 lowing Fellows and Members were elected : — 



Fellows : S. Castle (Bidston), Mrs. 

 Clarke (Bournemouth), Fleming Crooks 

 (London, W.), Miss Gaskell (Midhurst), 



Norman Graham (Godalming), Major Boyd 

 Horsbrugh (Oxted), Miss E. M. Jones 

 (Market Harboro'), Clementina Lady Lilford 

 (Wimbledon, S.W.), Miss E. M. Melvill (Lon- 

 don, S.W.), Arthur D. Nix (Truro), W. J. 

 Palmer (Dover), Miss E. Pierse-Duncombe 

 (Hollington), Mrs. Rosenthal (Chislehurst), 

 R. J. Cambridge Syrett (Bury St. Edmunds), 

 Mrs. Tempest (High Wycombe), Miss Ethel 

 Thesiger (Market Harboro'), E. Russell 

 Thompson (Redhill), Colonel W. Tremayne 

 (Cornwall). 



Members : Lewis Balfour (Chipstead), 

 Mrs. Frank Brown (Tring), T. B. Beavan 

 (Trowbridge), Miss Barclay (Holt), Mrs. 

 Boden (Derby), Hon. John Boscawen 

 (Perranwell), Mrs. Clifford (Westgate-on- 

 Sea), Sidney T. G. Dark (London, S.W.), 

 Viscount Falmouth (Truro), Mrs. Fleming 

 (Bradford on Avon), Edmund Halstead 

 (Burnley), Henry Halton (Newburgh), Miss 

 F. Lightfoot (Newcastle,) Miss Rhona Mason 

 (Witney), Dr. N. Marrett (Sandon), Mrs. 

 Walter May (Woodford Green), T. C. 

 Myddelton (Woodhall Spa), Miss P. Moore 

 (Hove), Miss Evelyn Naylor (Derby), J. 

 Ohlenschlager (Isleworth) ; Mrs. Parker 

 (Bournemouth), Miss M. Phillips (St. 

 Leonards), Albert E. Pullar (Perth), Rev. 

 T. Roberts (Holt), Lord St. Levan (Mara- 

 zion), J. Stewart Selby (Nottingham), Arthur 

 Stephens (Beaconsfield), John Strachan, 

 M.D. (Dollar, N.B.), Miss F. Wilson (Belfast). 



Life Member : Lord Newton. 



Affiliated : Junior " Beautiful Oldham " 

 Society. 



General Business. 



Consideration of the Annual Report and 

 Annual Meeting, arrangements for Competi- 

 tions in 1914, and the programme for tho 

 Plumage Bill Campaign, and various other 

 matters, further occupied the attention of 

 the Council. 



Next Meeting, April 24th. 



PUBLIC SCHOOL ESSAY 

 COMPETITION, 1 9 14. 

 The following are the subjects for the 

 Essays invited from boys at Public Schools 

 in Great Britain, in 1914 : — 



The Owl Prizes. — A Special Prize or 



