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Vol. III.— No. 6.] 



London : 3, Hanover Square, W. 



[JUNE 25, 1909. 



THE SOCIETY'S NEW OFFICES. 



i'N and after July 1st, the head- 

 quarters of the Royal Society for 

 the Protection of Birds will be 

 Z|dl at 23, Queen Anne's Gate, West- 

 minster, S.W. (Telephone 2412 Victoria.) 

 The Zoological Society of London, who 

 own the premises at No. 3, Hanover 

 Square, have decided to sell the place 

 on account of its growing insecurity. 

 and to build new Offices at the Zoological 

 Gardens ; hence their tenants necessarily 

 received notice to quit. The change is in 



The new Offices of the Society, at No. 23, 

 Queen Anne's Gate, will be no doubt in some 

 respects more convenient for many members 

 and friends, on account of their central and 

 accessible situation. Close to St. James's 

 Park and Westminster, they are within easy 

 reach of Victoria, Waterloo, and Charing 

 Cross Stations, and about two minutes from 

 St. James's Park Station on the District 

 Railway. At the same time, the quiet of the 

 thoroughfare itself, lying between Victoria 

 Street and Birdcage Walk, is a benefit to 



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many ways regretted. The R.S.P.B. had 

 been at No. 3 almost the whole time it has 

 rented a London Office, migrating thither 

 after a few months in temporary rooms in 

 Holborn, in June, 1898 ; and over and above 

 the fact that a change of address is obviously 

 disadvantageous in the case of Societies with 

 an extensive correspondence, and doing 

 public work, regret is felt at severing the 

 link with the Zoological Society, whose 

 council and officers have been the most 

 courteous and friendly of landlords and 

 neighbours. 



workers ; and it is known to all lovers of old 

 London as one of the most charming streets 

 left in the Westminster district, with solid 

 Queen Anne houses adorned in some cases, 

 as in No. 23, with finely carved oak porticos. 

 About half-way down on the south side, 

 against a niche in the wall, stands a statue 

 of the Queen after whom Queen Anne's Gate 

 was named in the first instance, Queen's 

 Square ; it represents Her Majesty in state 

 robes, bearing the orb, and like the more 

 imposing statue in front of St. Paul's, was 

 erected during her reign. 



