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the cures, the important services of bird 

 and wasp might be considered, even though 

 not providing so visible a cemetery as the 

 fly paper. Flies, it is proclaimed, frequent 

 garbage and convey germs thence to man 

 and his food. An emphatic paragraph on 

 the subject appeared the other day in a 

 Bristol paper. In the same journal was 

 the information that the local Health 



Committee had deferred for a twelvemonth, 

 on the ground of expense, the provision 

 of sanitary dustbins ; the contents of the 

 boxes in use, said the Medical Officer, were 

 littered about the streets. It is no unknown 

 sight in London to see clouds of dust and 

 a litter of filthy paper blowing off uncovered 

 dust-carts about the streets and into meat 

 and fruit shops. And the germs ? 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



Mr. Montagu Shaepe (Chairman) pre- 

 sided at the quarterly meeting of the 

 Council, held at the Middlesex Guildhall, 

 S.W., on July 23rd, 1915, and there 

 were also present : Mr. Bell, Miss Clifton, 

 Hon. Mrs. Drewitt, Dr. Drewitt, Miss Hall, 

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

 Mr. Masefield, Mr. Meade-Waldo, Mr. 

 Ogilvie-Grant, and Captain Tailby, and 

 the Secretary (Miss Gardiner). 



Hon. Secretary's Report. 



The Hon. Secretary reported the issue 

 of Bird Protection Orders for Galway, 

 May 6th, extending close-time for certain 

 species to Dec. 1st ; and for Wicklow, 

 June 21st, withdrawing protection from 

 the Cormorant and the " Hooded or 

 Carrion " Crow. Fourteen further Bird- 

 and-Tree Festivals had been held. The 

 three leaflets, Nos. 65a, 73 and 74 had 

 been issued. With regard to Nesting- 

 Boxes, the statement showed that the 

 demand had continued, and that the 

 British-made Boxes on the Berlepsch 

 principle had proved beyond a doubt 

 that bird-lovers had gained rather than 

 lost by the cessation of trade with 

 Germany ; and it was agreed to continue 

 to provide the patterns most enquired for. 



The popularity of last season's Greeting 

 Card suggested that a really appropriate 

 card would be welcomed for next Christ- 

 mas, and it was agreed to ask Mr. Murray 

 Dixon if he could again furnish a design. 



Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee. 



The Committee presented the statement 

 of accounts for the second quarter of 

 1915. The death was reported of the 

 Society's valued Hon. Secretary for Hythe, 

 Mr. G. W. Chitty, and the regret expressed 

 at his loss was fully endorsed by the 

 Council. The resignations were received 

 of Miss Patrickson for Mario w, Mr. 

 Hadden for Malvern, and Mrs. Burdon for 

 Royston ; and the appointments con- 

 firmed of Mrs. Hector McLean as Hon. 

 Sec. for Blundellsands, and Miss C. M. 

 Hudson for Keswick. The following 

 Fellows and Members were elected : 



Fellows : Lady Bingham (Sheffield) ; Miss 

 Wright Anderson (London, W.) ; P. R. England 

 (Liverpool) ; Miss A. M. Keep (Houghton) ; 

 Lieut. E. F. Lawder, R.N. ; Mrs. Parson 

 (Haslemere) ; the Rev. C. G. Roffe-Silvester 

 (Hindhead) ; Mrs. Summers (Winchester) ; 

 Miss Florence Wilson (Newtonbreda). 



Members : N. Abbott (Didsbury) ; Fred. 

 Ballard (Malvern) ; Mrs. Berrington (Wolver- 

 hampton) ; Mrs. Cunynghame (Winchester) ; 

 Miss Everard-Hutton (Bath) ; Chas. Gibb 



