ZOOLOCIICAI. SOCIKTY BL'LLE'J'IX 



1109 



Till-; KOVAI. SOCIETY FOR Til I', 

 I'KOTKCTIOX OF BllilXS. 



-':i Queen's Aiiiie's G;ite. 



I.omlon, S. \V. 



The Director i>f the Xew York /,,>olo};ie:il 

 Park informed the Hon. Seeretary of tlic 

 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds that 

 at the annual meeting of the Zoological So- 

 ciety of Xew York held on January IS, 1311, 

 at which upwards of a thousand memhers 

 were present, it was resolved to cahle to the 

 Zoological Society of London the followin;;' 

 message; 



"The Zoological Society of Xew York, 

 having been largely instrumental in se- 

 curing the passage of our national 

 measure for the protection of the birds 

 of the world, by preventing all impor- 

 tations for purposes of fashion or mil- 

 linery, hereby extends its greetings to 

 its fellow-members of the Zoological So- 

 ciety of London, and expresses the hope 

 that the Society which represents the 

 other great metropolis of the world, will 

 lend its unanimous support to the Hob- 

 house Bill, now before Parliament, which 

 is designed to re-inforce tlie protective 

 measures passed by Congress. 



"The effect of the American law has 

 been instantaneous and v/idesprcad, and 

 is now receiving unanimous support all 

 over the United States. The very pass- 

 age and enforcement of the law has 

 created a sentiment for wild life pro- 

 tection in many quarters where it did 

 not exist before. The Millinery trade 

 has adapted itself to the new conditions, 

 and the law is acknowledged to be most 

 lieneficial in its results." 

 '1 he Royal Society for the protection of 

 Birds have heard with great satisfaction that 

 at a meeting of the Zoological Society of Lou- 

 don, held on February 4th, ISH, a vote ni 

 sympathy with the C.overnment Plum.igc Bill 

 was )(assed. 

 rth Fcbniarv, Mill. 



But the clearly expressed wishes of the jieo- 

 ple of England are of no importance to the 

 feather trade, — which now is resorting to the 

 most shameless trickery, in order to kill the 

 Hobhouse Bill by delay, or by amendments. 

 We are in receipt of a list of fortif-ixco "ameud- 

 mtnits" that iiave been proposed to the Im|)or- 

 tation of Plumage Bill, up to Tuesday, March 

 31 ! In this well-nigii endless series, every 

 form of trickery that can be imagined is at- 

 tempted, and it is evident that the tools of the 

 feather trade are desperately anxious to defeat 

 the bill .it all hazards. Four members of the 

 House of Commons, — Sir Edmund Cornwall 

 and ^lessrs. Denniss, Hinds and Timothv Da- 

 vies. — appear as tlie feather-dealers' quartette, 

 and twenty-four of the proposed amendments 



arc fathered by them. They are feebly assisted 

 by Mr. Glyn-jones. Mr. ^Vatt. Sir. J.D. Rees, 

 Mr. Dawes and Mr. Rothschild. 



Apparently. American legislators have much 

 to learn from our cis-Atlantic cousins of the 

 noble art of obstruction and jiarliamentary 

 delay. Occasionally some of our members of 

 Congress exhaust themselves by long debate in 

 opposition to measures which tlicy disapprove; 

 but they never yet liave made themselves su- 

 ))remely ridiculous before their country by the 

 introduction of an endless chain of sillv amend- 

 ments. 



Our advice to the Royal .Socictv for the Pro- 

 tection of Birds, — which is bearing the brunt 

 of the campaign, — is to publicly expose, in the 

 most complete manner, the methods of the 

 feather-dealers' quartette. W. T. H. 



NEW ME.MBERS. 

 M.iiu H 1, 191 1. TO .May 1, 1911. 



LIFE MEMBEIIS. 



Da\ is, Wm. T. 

 Hagenbeck, Heinrich, 

 Hagenbeck, l.orenz. 



Wendell, Evert Jansen, 

 Wharton, William P., 

 Willets, Elmore A., 



Stockard, Dr. Charles R. 



\XXl\M. :\rE>IBEHS 



Allen, Rev. .Vrthur H., .Tones, Dr. Israel C, 



Anderson, Mrs. J. Scott. Kahn, Felix E., 



Baird, .VUen Y., Keil, Francis, 



Ballard, Sumner, Kephart, Rev. Wm. H., 



Booth, Enos S., Lawrence, R. Warren, 



Bop]), ,Iohn, Lee, George C, 



Brooks, Miss Bertha Ci. Leggett, Warren F., 



thabners. .Vrthur \., McClintock, Gilbert S., 



Canii)bell, J. W. C, .McCrea, W. S., 



Clapp, A. \„ Main, Frank H., 



Clancy, ,7ohn Evarts, Paddock, Mrs. Chas. H., 



Cnnkling, Paul B., Perrv, Winthrop H., 



Conrad, Miss Alicia D., Putnam, II. St. Clair, 



Cory, Daniel W., (^uincv, Charles F., 



Crocker, Roberts., Robertson, .lulius, 



Dallett, Frederic A., Smidt, Thos., 



Davi.s, David T., .Sehwarzler, Albert .1., 



Dery, D. George, Straight, Willard, 



DuBois, Dr. Eugene F., Sutro, Lionel, 



lickart, Edmund, .Swan, ,James A., 



Edwards, Wm. Seymour, Thomas, .Seth, E., ,Tr., 



Emburv, Mrs. .las'. W., Tuska, Ben iamiu, 



Estabronk, .Vrthur F., Uhl, Oswald W., 



Faber, Eberhard, Yanderpoel, .Vmbrose E., 



Fahnestock, Dr. Ernest, YanDyke. R. B., 



l<"ahnestoek, Mrs. Ernest, Yesper, Karl H., 



Eraser, Mrs. Geo. C, Walker, Dr. John B., 



Garrison, Mrs. J. H., Weatherbee, Mrs. E. H., 



Greenwood, Joseph R., M'eigle, Charles H., 



Guggenhein\er, Miss E. Weil, Richard, 



Harper, Harrv, Winter, .Tulius, 

 Wyckoff, Mrs. Peter B., 



