BIBB NOTES ANB NEWS. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Annual Meeting of the Society is to be 

 held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, on 

 March 27th. The Earl of Stamford will 

 take the chair, and among those who are 

 expected to take part are Lord Morpeth, M.P., 

 Sir W. Portal, Archdeacon Wilberforce, and 

 Mr. Thompson Seton. 



A report of the proceedings will be issued 

 to Fellows, Members, and Associates, with 

 the Annual Report of the Society for 1907. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



The Council of the Society met at 3, Hanover 

 Square, on January 24th, 1908, when there 

 were present : Mr. Montagu Sharpe (chair- 

 man) in the chair, Mr. Bell, Hon. A. Dobson, 

 Mr. Dresser, the Hon. Mrs. Drewitt, Dr. 

 Drewitt, Hon. Mrs. Henniker, Mr. F. King, 

 Mr. Hastings Lees, Mrs. F. E. Lemon, Mr. 

 Meade- Waldo, Captain Tailby, Mr. Trevor- 

 Battye, Mrs. Owen Visger, the Hon. Secretary 

 (Mr. F. E. Lemon), and the Secretary (Miss 

 Gardiner). 



The Hon. Secretary's Report stated that 

 ten Bird and Tree Festivals had been held 

 since December 13th ; that Bird Protection 

 Orders had been issued for Cambridgeshire, 

 East Suffolk, and the County Borough of 

 Bath ; and that the Society's slides had 

 been used for the illustration of thirteen 

 lectures, as under : — 



Dec. 19th — Havant 

 ,. 19th— Cardiff . . 

 „ 21st — Poole .. 

 ,. 30th — Maidstone 



. . Mr. H. Beeston. 



. . Dr. Paterson. 



. . Mr. Parkinson Curtis. 



. . Mr. J. H. Allchin. 



Jan. 10th — Helensburgh . . Miss O. G. Paterson. 

 „ 13th— Rattleston . . Rev. J. G. Tuck. 

 „ 13th — Caterham Valley Madame Weatherlev. 

 „ 16th— Rosewell, N.B. . . Col. Wardlaw- 



Ranisay. 

 „ 17th — Maidstone . . Mr. Allchin. 



„ 20th — Portmadoc . . Mr. Edwards. 

 „ 20th— Midlothian . . Col. Wardlaw- 



Ramsay. 

 ,, 21st — Brockenhurst . . Rev. J. E. Kelsall. 

 „ 22nd — Pershore . . Mr. Hooper. 



The Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee presented the statement of ac- 

 counts for the year 1907. The appointment 

 of the following Hon. Local Secretaries was 

 approved : Berkhamsted, Mrs. Gower, The 

 Cottage, North Road ; Loughborough, Mr. G. 

 Frisby, of Quorn ; Southsea, Miss Georgina 

 Wolfe, St. John's, Granada Road. The 

 following resignations were accepted with 

 regret, and with thanks for their past services : 

 Mrs. T. H. Thornely, on leaving Birkenhead ; 

 Mrs. Victor Veley, on leaving Oxford ; Miss 

 F. A. Smith, on leaving Penzance ; and the 

 death was reported of Miss Butler, H.L.S. 

 for Royston, an old and valued worker for 

 the Society. Mr. A. C. AUen, The Wyck, 

 Hitchin, and Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, of 

 the British Museum, were elected Fellows. 

 The Earl of Carlisle was elected a Life 

 Member, and thirty annual Members were 

 elected as follows : Ernest Allen (Chisle- 

 hurst), Miss E. E. Armstrong (London), Mrs. 

 Boardman (Groombridge), Miss Leigh Browne 

 (London), Miss Croom Brown (Oxford), R. 

 Budgett (Buckingham), Mrs. Campbell 

 (Liverpool), Miss Catty (Putney), Mrs. Guy 

 Fen wick (Stamford), Mrs. Ferguson (Aber- 

 gavenny), Mrs. France-Hayhurst (Welling- 

 ton, Salop), Miss P. Haviland (St. Albans), 

 Miss H. Hayhurst (Wellington), Rev. 

 J. Hewitt and Mrs. Hewitt (Torquay), 

 J. H. R. de Jersey (Midhurst), Lady Sybil 

 Knox (Oakham), Rev. A. Kynaston (Bath), 

 Mrs. Philcox (Horsell), Mrs. Bernard Player 

 (Coulsdon), Miss Rowbotham (Yardley), Hugh 

 F. Spender (London), H. Y. Stanger, K.C., 

 M.P. (London), E. Vulliamy (Edinburgh), 

 Miss Silvia Watney (Charlbury), Mrs. H. 

 Winn (Yardley), Miss G. Wolfe (Southsea), 

 Mrs. Zohn (Royston). 



The Publication Committee brought 

 forward the Regulations for the International 

 Gold Medal Competition, and the draft 



