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BIBB NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 



COUNCIL MEETINGS. 



Meetings of the Council were held on 

 October 8th and December 17th, 1909, at 

 the Middlesex Guildhall, Broad Sanctuary, 

 S.W., by kind permission of the Chairman 

 of the County Council. On October 8th 

 there were present : Mr. Montagu Sharpe, in 

 the chair, Mr. Bell, Miss Clifton, Miss Hall, 

 Mr. W. H. Hudson, Mr. Hastings Lees, Mrs. 

 Lemon, Mr. Meade- Waldo, Miss Pollock, 

 Mrs. Owen Visger, Mr. F. E. Lemon. Hon. 

 Secretary, and the Secretary (Miss Gardiner). 

 The Hon. Secretary's Report recorded 

 the issue of six Bird Protection Orders ; the 

 Pole-Trap prosecutions in Wales ; arrange- 

 ments in connection with Bird and Tree 

 Competitions ; and a protest made by the 

 Society with respect to the sale at Stevens' 

 Salerooms of eight lots of eggs which had 

 been illegally taken. 



The Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee presented the accounts, which 

 were approved, and detailed arrangements 

 made for the exhibition of the large photo- 

 graphs of " The Story of the Egret " and for 

 the sale of nesting-boxes. The recommen- 

 dation of the Committee that "reference to 

 the measures being taken in France for the 

 encouragement of ornamental-plumaged 

 poultry for the sake of the use in millinery 

 of their feathers, should be inserted in Bird 

 Notes and News without any expression of 

 opinion on the merits of the scheme," was 

 discussed, and it was carried by a majority 

 that " an opinion be expressed that the 

 Society does not approve of the proposal." 

 The following were elected Fellows of the 

 Society : Thomas Baring, Portman Square, 

 W. ; Harry Cox, Pine House, Stow-on- the- 

 Wold ; Alfred Alex. Clarke, The Hall, Wells ; 

 Colonel Creaghe-Haward, Glenellen,Miltown : 

 Mrs. Forester, London, W. ; Mrs. Montagu 

 Sharpe, Brent Lodge, W. ; H. Y. Stanger, 



K.C., M.P. ; Arthur Trower, Redhill; W. H. 

 Upjohn, Lympne Cottage, Hythe. 



The following were elected members : — 



T. M. Brooks (Tarporley), G. L. Courthope, 

 M.P., Rev. A. A. David (Clifton College), G. B. 

 Eaton (Gorsey Hey, Cheshire), Miss L. H. Huie 

 (Edinburgh), Miss Iago (Corfe Castle), Miss B. S. 

 Nicol (Invercraig, N.B.), P. A. Stone (Neston), 

 Mrs. Tennant (London, W.), T. W. Tetley (Liver- 

 pool), A. J. Gibson Thomson (Edinburgh). 



Affiliated : The Passadena Audubon Society, 

 California. 



The Publication Committee reported the 

 preparation of special editions of " The Story 

 of the Egret," the Christmas card from Miss 

 Austen's design, leaflet for schoolboys, by 

 Mr. H. Cox, and circular to Head Constables, 

 by Mr. Hastings Lees. 



The Watcher s Committee reported on 

 the year's work, and it was agreed that a 

 translation of the Pole-Trap Act in Welsh 

 should be distributed in Wales, and that a 

 letter should be sent to Head Constables of 

 counties where there is any likelihood of this 

 trap being used. 



The General Business included a discussion 

 as to the protection of Gulls and the action 

 of the Southern Sea Fisheries Board. It 

 was resolved that a letter be sent to 

 members of certain County Councils on the 

 subject, giving the reasons against the 

 proposals to deprive Gulls of the protection 

 afforded them by the Wild Birds Protection 

 Acts. 



At the meeting on December 17th, Mr. 

 Montagu Sharpe again presided, others 

 present being Mr. Bell, Miss Clifton, Miss 

 Hall, Hon. Mrs. Henniker, Mr. Hudson, 

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

 Meade- Waldo, Mr. Trevor- Battye, the Hon. 

 Secretary, and the Secretary. 



The Hon. Secretary reported that lantern 

 slides had been lent for 27 lectures, &c, as 

 follows : — 



October, Miss L H. Huie, Edinburgh ; October 

 18th, Mr. Riley Fortune, Harrogate ; October 22nd, 



