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interest in the question of the protection of wild birds and 

 of their eggs, the Committee of the B. 0. U. desire publicly 

 to state (as they have already assured Lord Buxton) : — 



" (1) That they are desirous of encouraging the protection 

 of rare birds in England in every way possible; 



'* (2) That it is their ambition to limit the collecting of 

 eggs to the taking of such as are required in the interests 

 of science, and they specially protest against the taking of 

 eggs of any birds in any locality where they are rare, 

 or the taking of eggs in unnecessary numbers ; 



" (3) That it is their emphatic desire to support, both in 

 letter and in spirit, the Acts which provide for the pro- 

 tection of birds and their eggs, and they deprecate very 

 strongly the action of any member who disobeys these laws, 

 or who incites any other to break or evade them. 



" We are. Sir, yours faithfully, 



H. J. Elwes, President, B. O.U. 

 E,. 0. Stuart Baker, 



" British Ornithologists' Union, Hon. Secretary, B. 0. U." 



6 Harold-road, Upper Norwood, S.E. 19." 



The Committee of the British Ornithologists' Club desire 

 to associate themselves in every way with the principles 

 and views laid down in the letter, and feel that under these 

 circumstances they can no longer continue to publish in 

 the ' Bulletin ' the proceedings of the Oological Dinners, 

 over which they have no control and for which they are 

 in no way responsible. 



The Chairman's remarks were followed by a discussion 

 in which Dr. C. B. Ticehurst, Colonel R. Meinertzhagen, 

 Lord Rothschild, the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, Mr. C. D. 

 BoRRER, Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, Mr. P. F. Bunyard, 

 Mr. E. G. B. Meade- Waldo, Mr. F. J. Waydelin, and 

 others took part. 



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