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BIRD NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Roydl Society for the Protection of Birds. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



The Council of the Society met at the 

 Gliddlesex GuildhaU on April 7th, 1911, 

 when there were present : Mr. Montagu 

 Sliarpe (Chairman), Mr. Bell, Mr. Dresser, 

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

 Hon. Mrs. Hennilier, Mr. Hastings Lees, 

 Mr. E. E. Lemon (Hon. Secretary), Mrs. 

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

 Grant, Miss Pollock, Captain Tailby, Mr. 

 Trevor Battye, and Miss Gardiner (Secretary). 

 The Hon. Secretary's Report gave 

 information relative to the Conference at 

 the Colonial Office on the Destruction of 

 Plumage-Bu'ds ; Mr. Lemon attended and 

 gave evidence on March 15th. The issue 

 of Bird Protection Orders for Derbyshire 

 and the East and North Ridings of York- 

 shire, for NeAvport C.B., and for Scotland, 

 was reported. The following lectures had 

 been given since January 27th : — 



Jan. 28 Mi-. H. CoIUson Rugby School. 



Jan. 30 Rev. J. E. Kelsall Rownhams, Hants. 



Jan. 30 Miss E. L. Couyers Ben Rhydding, 

 & Feb. 3 Ilkley. 



Feb. 14 ]Mr. Linnaeus Hope Carlisle. 



Feb. 14 Rev. J. E. Kelsall Milton. 



Feb. 23 Mi-s. SuckUng Winchester. 



Feb. 24 Miss Pritchard Hampstead. 



Feb. 27 Ml-. Masefield Cheadle, Staffs. 



Feb. 28 Miss Rintoul Lahill, Fife. 



Mar. 11 Ml-. A. J. Richardson St. Peter's Com-t, 



& 12 Broadstaii's. 



Mar. 17 Miss Rintoul Kii-kcaldy. 



Finance and General Purposes Com- 

 mittee. The quarterly accounts having 

 been presented and passed, the Hon. 

 Secretary announced that a sjiecial donation 

 of £1,000, for further effort in a specified 

 department of the AAork, had been received 

 by the Society from a donor who preferred 

 to remam anonymous. It was unanimously 

 agreed that a most hearty vote of thanks 

 for so welcome a gift should be forwarded 

 to the giver, and should be recorded on the 



minutes ; arrangements for the work were 



referred to the Committee. A donation of 



£25 from Mrs. Fuller Maitland towards 



expenses connected with the issue of 



" Feathers and Facts," was also gratefully 



acknowledged. It was reported that the 



Rev. AUan Ehison, lately Hon. Local 



Secretary for West Herts, had become 



Secretary for the Isle of Axholme, on being 



appointed to the Rectory of Althorpe. 



The following Fellows and Members were 



elected : — 



Fellows : Colonel Edward Browell (Merrow, 

 Surrey); W. H. Colt (Queen Victoria St., E.C.) ; 

 Miss Annie Garrett (The Holmwood, Sm-rey) ; 

 Mrs. Ivrauss (Pir bright) ; Gaspard le Marchant 

 (South Kensington, S.W.) ; Albert Pani (Regent's 

 Park, N.W.) ; W. H. Tapp (Bromley, Kent). 



Life Members : IMiss H. E. Whitaker (London, 

 S.W.) ; Edmund Page (Neston, Cheshire). 



Members : Miss Barney (Rattlesden, Suffolk) ; 

 R. Oswald Blyth (Balvouie, N.B.) ; Major Cameron 

 (Portree) ; Clu-istopher CarUsle (Pevensey) ; W. G. 

 Clegg (Delamere, Northwick) ; Mrs. Eb-ington 

 (Bishop's Waltham) ; Mrs. Arundel Everard 

 (Launceston) ; Miss C. Powell Evans (Aberystwyth) ; 

 Mrs. Fielden-Taylor (Torquay) ; Richard Jones 

 (Sheffield) ; Rev. M. C. F. Morris (Welshpool) ; Miss 

 Ida Norman (Severn Stoke) ; Mrs. Wellesley Paget 

 (Mallow, Co. Cork) ; James Reid (Stoneha^'en, N.B.) ; 

 Mi's. Sauter (London, W.) ; Miss Scarfe (London. 

 N.) ; Miss E. Urban Smith (London, N.W.) ; Mrs, 

 Smytli (Penryn, Cornwall) ; Edward Stimpson 

 (Reepham, Norfolk) ; Mrs. Lloyd Theakston (Bar- 

 mouth) ; J. C. Tregarthen (Richmond) ; Erwin 

 Trier (Robertsbridge) ; Mrs. J. Wilson (Guernsey). 



Affiliated : The Dutch Society for the Protection 

 of Birds ; the Bridgwater Field Club. 



The Publication Committee reported 

 the issue of ',' Feathers and Facts," and 

 various arrangements for leaflets and hand- 

 bills. 



General Business. The Standing Com- 

 mittees for the year were appomted ; 

 Parliamentary Bills were discussed ; and 

 various questions brought before the Society 

 by corresporidents, were considered. 



The Watchers Committee met on May 

 nth, and the Finance and General Purposes 



