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BIBB NOTES ANB NEWS. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



The Quarterly Meeting of the Council of 

 the Society was held at 3, Hanover Square, 

 on April 10th, 1908, Mr. Montagu Sharpe 

 (Chairman) presiding. The members of the 

 Council present were : Mr. Ernest Bell, 

 Hon. Alfred Dobson, Mr. H. E. Dresser, 

 Miss Hall, Hon. Mrs. Henniker, Sir George 

 Kekewich, M.P., Mr. Hastings Lees, Mrs. 

 F. E. Lemon, Mr. Meade- Waldo, Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Miss Pollock, Mrs. Owen Visger, and 

 Mr. F. E. Lemon (Hon. Secretary). 



The Hon. Secretary's Report stated that 

 a special appeal against the use of the pole 

 trap, signed by the President, Chairman, 

 and Hon. Secretary of the Society, had been 

 sent to over two thousand owners and 

 tenants of shootings, together with a copy 

 of the Pole Trap Act ; that six Bird Protection 

 Orders had been issued, and that the Scottish 

 Orders had been renewed with certain altera- 

 tions ; that entries had been received from 

 Beds, Bucks, Cumberland, Hampshire, and 

 Somerset for the Bird and Tree (Arbor Day) 

 Challenge Shield Competitions in 1908, while 

 the Norfolk County Council had agreed to 

 work the competition in that county, the 

 Society giving a shield and undertaking 

 the final judging ; a similar arrangement 

 had been made in Warwickshire, and the 

 scheme was also to be tested in Cambridge- 

 shire and Northamptonshire. Lectures illus- 

 trated by the Society's slides had been given 

 as follows : — 



Jan. 27 — Halstead . . Mrs. Nelson. 



Feb. 4 — Cardiff . . . . Dr. Paterson. 



5 — Badminton . . Mrs. Harford. 



14 — Dyche School, Bath Miss Agnes Fry. 



15 — Cardiff . . . . Dr. Paterson. 



17 — Bolton . . . . Miss Barlow. 



18— Great Barton . . Rev. J. G. Tuck. 



21 — Waterfoot, Mnchr. Mr. H. Metcalfe. 



22 — Hitchin . . . . Miss M. Thompson. 



22 — Sandhurst . . Mr. Hastings Lees. 



24 — Wellington Coll. Mr. Hastings Lees. 



Feb. 25— Oxford Cathedral 

 School 

 ,, 27 — Storrington 

 „ 28 — Meopham, Kent 

 ,, 29 — Addingham 

 Mar. 3 — Llanishen 

 9 — Romford 

 ,, 11 — Quorn 

 12— Poole 

 ,. 17 — Ringwood 



18— Christchurch 

 ,, 19 — Havant 



20— Brompton, S.W. 

 24— Tostock . . 

 ,, 25 — Bury St. Edmunds 

 April 2 — Meopham 

 10— Bristol 



Mr. Hastings Lees. 



Mr. Haines. 



Mrs. Arnold. 



Mr. Herbert Walker. 



Mr. Care. 



Miss Clifton. 



Mr. Frisby. 



Mr. Parkinson Curtis. 



Rev. J. E. Kelsall. 



Rev. J. E. Kelsall. 



Mr. Beeston. 



Miss Burra. 



Rev. J. Tuck. 



Rev. J. Tuck. 



Mrs. Arnold. 



Mr. H. V. Webb. 



The Rev. J. G. Tuck kindly arranged two drawing- 

 room meetings, and remitted £1 18s. to the Society. 



The Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee brought forward the quarterly 

 statement of accounts, which was passed. 

 Two Hon. Local Secretaries were appointed, 

 viz., Mr. R. H. Stenhouse, for Inverness-shire, 

 and Mrs. Flisher for Southampton. Mr. W. 

 J. Percy Player, of The Quarr, Clydach, Mr. 

 W.Graham Greene, C.B., Park Lane Chambers, 

 W., Mrs. Pennell, Goodford Park House, 

 Devon, and Mr. Eric Parker, Holmthorpe, 

 Weybridge, were elected Fellows. Mr. A. 

 St. George Caulfield, Lymington, was elected 

 a Life Member, and the following thirty-three 

 were elected as annual members : — W. H. 

 Allen (Bramber), Miss Agnes Burra (London), 

 E. Chitty (Dover), E. C. Chitty (Dover), 

 J. D. Cradock (Quorn Court), W. Parkinson 

 Curtis (Poole), Mrs. Randall Davies (Hythe), 

 Miss Violet Edgell (Storrington), O. A. Ellis 

 (Barrow-on-Soar), Mrs. Flisher (Southamp- 

 ton), Clifford Hackney (Hythe), Mrs. Brewis 

 Havelock (Brocklesby), G. Mitchell Hedges 

 (London), C. V. H. Helyar (Taunton), Mrs. 

 Percy Herrick (Loughborough), Miss R. E. 

 Horridge (Derby), Miss A. Lowndes (Peters- 

 field), Major McNair, R.A. (Brighton), Miss 

 M. Gibson Mahony (Kingstown), Mrs. Cotton 

 Minchin (Wimbledon), Miss C. M. Newton 

 (Cambridge), Hon. Mrs. Parsons (Sandhurst), 



