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MEMBERS’ TEA ® PROPOSED DINNER.



At the last Meeting of the Council of the Avicultural Society

it was decided to give afternoon tea to the Members in the Fellows’

Tea Pavilion in the Zoological Gardens at four p.m. on Friday, June

20th, the day of the summer Meeting of the Council. Each mem¬

ber is invited to bring one friend ; and those who wish to be present

are requested to inform the Hon. Secretary not later than Monday,

June 15th. so that the number to be provided for may be known.


It was also suggested at the Council that some members and

their friends might like to dine together in the Zoological Gardens,

at seven o’clock in the evening of the same day ; the price of the

dinner not to exceed 5/- per head, exclusive of wine. The necessary

arrangements for this can be made, if four days notice be given to

the Secretary. R. I. POCOCK, Hon. Sec.,


Zoological Society, Regent’s Park, N.W.



CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ®c.


ENFORCING THE AIGRETTE LAW.


In “Bird-Lore” of Sept.-Oct., 1912, a very interesting bi-monthly

Magazine, which is devoted to the study and protection of Birds in the United

States, and which is the official organ of the Audubon Societies (Mr. Frank M.

Chapman being the Editor) we quote the following: —


“ At the conclusion of the Meeting of the National Association of Game

“ Commissioners in Denver, Dr. T. S. Palmer, of Washington, the Vice-President

“ of the National Association of Audubon Societies, visited a number of the

“ large millinery stores of the city and called attention to the provisions of the

“ Audubon Law, enacted some time ago, to the effect that it was illegal to sell

“the feathers of the Egrets. He gave the merchants until four o’clock in the

“afternoon to remove their stock from exhibition and sale.”


“Judging from the accounts in the Denver papers, it is easy to see that

“ there was great activity in the plumage trade that afternoon, as it is said that

“ some of the milliners immediately sent word to their patrons that aigrette

“ plumes could be had at a great reduction, if purchased before the fatal hour

“ of four.”


[Why cannot a law which could have this effect be passed in England ?

To argue, as is argued, that it would be useless unless France, etc., agreed to do

the same, is immoral. If two members of a family are addicted to drunkenness,

one of them might just as well plead that he would like to become a total



