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Lieut. Gurney, Mr. Seth-Smith, and Mr. Pocock. Letters of regret

for non-attendance were received from Miss Chawner, Mr. Shore

Baily, and Mr. Willford.


The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

It was decided, in view of the cost of production, to delegate to the

Editor the entire correcting of proofs. By this ordinance, there¬

fore, no MS. accepted for the Magazine is reissued to contributors

or others for revision prior to final setting-up in type. In this way

the Council trusts to effect economy in the make-up of the Magazine.


In view of the necessity of strictly limiting the expenditure,

a proposal to issue special sheets of advertisements on coloured

paper in the Magazine was negatived, as was also a suggestion to

recommence publication of coloured plates.


The Chairman drew attention to the gratifying notice of the

work of the Society published in a recent number of ‘ The Ibis.’

Special attention had been drawn to Mr. Low’s unique photograph

of a runping Apteryx. The same gentleman’s remarkable photograph

of a colony of nesting Puffins, published in the July ‘ Avicultural ’

under the title of “ The Birth of a Nation,” was also noticed.


Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake was nominated to fill a vacancy on the

Council.



REVIEW.


AFTER BIG GAME.*


“ The hand, wearied all day with grasping the rifle, is not

the best suited for wielding tbe pen.” So wrote Roualeyn Gordon

Gumming, when in 1850 he published his famous book of South

African travel, from notes taken in the wilderness. Yet such rough

journalism, translated into literature, delighted generation after

generation of readers, and formed a notable accession to romantic

natural history. What Cumming and his fellow-hunters did for

South Africa, Mr. and Mrs. Meikle have done for East Africa. With



* 1 After Big Game: The Story of an African Holiday,’ by B. S. Meikle and Mrs.

M. E. Meikle. With 64 illustrations. London : S. Werner Laurie. 16s. net.



