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unflagging devotion with which he carried on the work of the

Field Club, the Sports Club and the Society for the Protection of

Animals. The delightful articles which he contributed to our

Magazine will be fresh in the recollection of our members.


Col. Momber was especially interested in European birds

and in measures for their protection, and, in collaboration with

Mr. H. A. Macpherson, wrote a Prize Essay on this subject. His

very last contribution to our Magazine was a plea for the better

protection of the Common Quail. Col. Momber was also a

collector of books and well read in Philosophy—in fact he was

an all round man—and his loss will be keenly felt by all those

who knew and estimated at their proper value his services to

aviculture and the cause of the preservation of the rapidly

vanishing European Fauna. W. E. T.



THE SOCIETY’S MEETING AND RECEPTION.



On July 6th, the date of the Summer meeting of the

Council, an informal reception of members of the Society, as

previously announced, was held in the Zoological Gardens.


Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford, Vice-President of

the Society, and the Council received the members, who then

proceeded to take tea in one of the rooms of the refreshment

department of the Gardens, which had been specially engaged

for the occasion. After tea the members present visited the

various exhibits in the Gardens, the majority proceeding to the

Small Bird House and Western Aviary.


The Duchess of Bedford was conducted to the Eastern

Aviary where Her Grace showed much interest in the young

Cariama which was walking about with its parents, having left

the nest that day for the first time. The various young birds

being reared in the new Western Duck and Goose Paddocks

were also inspected.


Amongst those present were the following : Her Grace the

Duchess of Bedford, The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Dr. F. Penrose,

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sclater, Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Pocock, Mr. and

Mrs. J. E. Bonliote, Mr. and Mrs. D. Seth-Smith, Mrs. Hartley,.



