THE AVICULTURAL. SOCIETY.


FOUNDED 1894.


Persons wishing to join the Avicultural Society are requested to com¬

municate with either of the Hon. Secretaries or the Editor.


The Magazine can also be had from the Publishers by NON-MEMBERS at a

Subscription of 25/- per annum.


NOTICE TO MEMBERS.


The Subscription to the Avicultural Society is £1 per annum, due on the

1st of November in each year, and is payable in advance. The entrance fee is 10/6.

The Avicultural Magazine is sent free to members monthly. Members joining at

any time during the year are entitled to the back numbers for the current year, on

the payment of entrance fee and subscription.


ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO THE HONORARY TREASURER,

Alfred Ezra, Esq., Foxwarren Park, Cobharn,Surrey. Telephone: 29 By fleet,

not to the Publishers.


All MSS. for publication in the Magazine, Books for Review, and

Advertisements should be addressed to the Editor, Dr. Graham Renshaay, Sale

Bridge House, Sale, Manchester. Telephone 144 Sale.


All Queries respecting Birds (except post-mortem cases) should be addressed

to the Hon. Correspondence Secretary, Dr. A. G. Butler, 124 Beckenham Boad,

Beckenham, Kent. [Enclose stamp for reply.] Telephone 1344 Sydenham.


All other correspondence should be sent to the Hon. Business Secretary.

Dr. L. Lovell-Keays, Stoke Lodge, London Boad, Guildford. Any change of

address should be at once notified to him. Telephone 358 Guildford.


Since the resignation of Miss Alderson the duties of Hon. Business

Secretary were carried on for a period by Mr. POCOCK, to whom the best thanks of

the Society are due.


Dead Birds for post-mortem examination should be sent to the Society’s

Pathologist, Prof. G. H. Wooldridge, F.B.C.Y.S., Royal Veterinary College,

Camden Town, London, N.W. Telephone : North 1703.


Advice is given, by post, by members of the Council to members of the

Society, upon subjects connected with Foreign and British birds. All queries

are to be addressed to the Hon. Correspondence Secretary and should contain a

lid. stamp. Those marked “ private ” will not be published.


The Magazine is published by Messrs. Stephen Austin & Sons, 5 Fore

Street, Hertford, to whom all orders for extra copies, back numbers, and

bound volumes (accompanied by remittance), should be addressed. Cases for

binding the Magazine (in art cloth, with gold block on side) can be obtained from

the Publishers, post free and carefully packed, at 2/6 each ; or the Publishers will

undertake the binding of the Volume for 4/-, plus 9 d. for packing and postage.

Members are requested to state whether they want the wrappers and advertise¬

ments bound in at the end or not. Telephone : 46 Hertford.



BACK VOLUMES OF THE AVICULTURAL MAGAZINE.


The sale of the above is temporarily withdrawn pending action by the Council.

Current Monthly Numbers 2/- each (except in special cases, such as the

Number containing the List of Members, Index, etc., when the Committee may

Increase the price), by post 2/1 ; for back numbers a higher price is charged

according to circumstances.


NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.


1. Correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only.


This saves the compositors’ time if the article is accepted. , . ,


2. MSS. should be posted sufficiently stamped. This saves the Society’s

pocket.


3. MSS. should be very clearly written, and are better it typewritten.

This saves the Editor’s time.


4. MSS. should be folded, not rolled. This saves the Editor’s temper.



