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All Members will unite with the Council in expressing appreciation

of her painstaking devotion to the interests of aviculture, and her

unwearying services for the promotion of natural history. The


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successful policy pursued at a time when red ruin overtook too many

other zoological jirojects owes much to her foresight and ability.


_ G. R.


COUNCIL NOTICE


The Council draws the attention of Members to the extension

of the present Volume up to and including December next. The

avicultural year will in future run from January to December.


The following elections are announced :—


Members of Council. —Miss Knobel, Mr. Newman.


Hon. Business Secretary. —Dr. Lovell Keays.


Auditor. —Dr. Lucas.


Scrutineer. —Mr. Pycraft.



THE SOCIETY’S MEDAL


The Society’s Medal is awarded to Mr. W. H. St. Quintin, for

breeding the Lesser White-fronted Goose (Avicultural Magazine,

May, 1919). No previous case is known, nor was any response

elicited by the Editor’s inquiry on p. 130 of the present Volume.

Mr. St. Quintin is to be congratulated on his success under the war

conditions then prevailing.



THE SOCIETY’S PRIZE


The Society’s Prize in Literature is awarded to M. A. Decoux

for papers contributed to the Magazine, with especial reference to his

breeding Melba Finch X Crimson-eared Waxbill hybrids, the young

living long enough to be independent of their parents (Avicultural

Magazine, April, 1919). Several other valuable papers were also

sent in.


Past Prizemen


1914. G. A. Heumann.


1915. No award.



