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Bird Notes and News 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



The quarterly Council Meeting was held 

 at the Middlesex Guildhall, S.W., on 

 April 24th, 1914, when there were 

 present : Mr. Montagu Sharpe (Chair- 

 man), Mr. Ernest Bell, Miss Clifton, 

 Dr. Drewitt, Hon. Mrs. Drewitt, Miss 

 Hall, Mr. F. E. Lemon (Hon. Sec.), 

 Mrs. F. E. Lemon, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Miss Pollock, Mr. Trevor-Battye, and 

 Miss Gardiner (Secretary). 



Hon. Secretary's Report. 



The Hon. Secretary reported on the 

 Annual Meeting, held on March 5th, and 

 the issue of the Annual Report. Thirty 

 lectures had been given since January 

 23rd, and fourteen Bird and Tree Festivals 

 held. Notice had been sent to all 

 Schools entered for 1914 of the special 

 Owl Prizes offered by a member of the 

 Council ; and arrangements were being 

 made with the Director of Education for 

 Wiltshire, through the Hon. F. S. O'Grady, 

 to invite entries from the elementary 

 schools in that county. Bird Protection 

 Orders had been issued for Bedfordshire, 

 Birmingham (new Order), Norwich, 

 Stockport (new Order), and Tynemouth, 

 and for the county of Waterford. 



Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee. 



The accounts for the quarter were 

 presented and passed. The following 

 Hon. Secretaries were appointed : Alfre- 

 ton, Mr. Harold W. Daykin ; Hamp- 

 stead, N.W., Mrs. F. E. Baines, in 

 succession to Mrs. Richard Roscoe, 

 resigned ; Tunbridge Wells, Miss Hilda 

 Beeching, The Priory, Tonbridge, in 

 succession to Miss Ellen Beeching, retired. 



The heartiest thanks of the Council 

 were voted to Mrs. Roscoe and Miss E. 

 Beeching, who have been connected with 

 the Society almost from the first and 

 who for twenty and twenty-three years 

 respectively have worked for it as Hon. 

 Secretaries. The following Fellows and 

 Members were elected : — 



Fellows : Russell Coombe (Exeter) ; 

 Miss M. B. Gamlen (Dawlish) ; Linnaeus 

 Greening, F.Z.S. (Grappenhall) ; John 

 Grubb (Winscombe) ; Alfred Gathorne- 

 Hardy (Donnington) ; Miss Marie Kleinw.art 

 (London, S.W.) ; Lieut. -Col. Sir C. 

 Wyndham Murray, C.B. (London, S.W.) ; 

 Lord Newton (Cheshire) ; G. F. Ormerod 

 (Elland); J. E. Pearson (Bristol); Bevill 

 Stanier, M.P. (Shrewsbury) ; E. J. Stephens 

 (London, S.W.) ; Mrs. Arthur Tharp (Lon- 

 don, W.) ; Lieut. -Col. Trotter (Midlothian); 

 Colonel Unwin (Sandown, I.W.) ; Miss 

 Julia B. Williams (Tunbridge Wells). 



Life Fellow : A. Goodinch Williams 

 (Plymouth). 



Members : E. P. Alexander (Holt) ; Allen 

 G. ' Ambrose (Swanley Junction) ; Miss B. 

 Berkeley (Sherborne) ; Tom Broad (London, 

 N.); Miss S. M. Bushell (Formby) ; Miss 

 F. C. Compton (Holt); Miss W. A. Conn 

 (Lowestoft) ; Lieut. E. Culme-Seymour 

 (Yelverton) ; Harold W. Daykin (Alfreton) ; 

 Miss B. Duff (N. Walsham); Miss M. 

 Elliott (Harpenden) ; W. H. Fear (Bristol) ; 

 Mrs. Lawrence Glen (Glasgow) ; Mrs. 

 Hunter Gray (London, S.W.) ; T. G. Hewitt 

 (London, W.) ; Mrs. R. H. Hudleston 

 (Taunton) ; Mrs. Hutchinson (Bridlington) ; 

 Mrs. Jones (Bridlington) ; Miss E. C. Lemon 

 (Blackheath) ; Mrs. Hamilton Leigh (Lon- 

 don, W.) ; A. R. Lewis (Lingfield) ; Miss 

 Love (Glasgow) ; Mrs. C. Mackinlay (Glas- 

 gow) ; Mrs. Maynard (Boroughbridge) ; Mrs. 

 Nash, Miss R. Nash .(Hampstead, N.W.) ; 

 Mrs. J. J. Pawson (Lesbury) ; Philip 

 Peabody, Miss Olive W. Peabody (Boston, 

 U.S.A.) ; Miss M. N. Peel (Clitheroe) ; Miss 

 Esme Pigott (Horsham) ; Miss Plumb 

 (Nottingham) ; Mrs. Pontifex (Bourne- 

 mouth) ; J. R. Rodd (Launceston) ; Mrs. 



