IV.



Report of the Council.



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL

- FOR 1913-1914. -



y^PART from the election of Councillors, the only change in the

Executive to be recorded in the past year is the retirement

of Mr. E, I. POCOCK, E.R.S. from the Honorary Business Secretary¬

ship after the five years tenure of that office allowed by the rules

of the Society. Owing to the increasing pressure of other work,

Mr. Pocock felt unable to offer his services for another term of

five years and Mr. T. H. Newman, who held the Secretaryship

from 1904 to 1909, kindly consented to resume the office.


Under Mr. Astley’s able and energetic Editorship the

excellence of the Magazine has been fully maintained, and the

increase in the number of members, attesting the growing interest

in aviculture, has permitted the expenditure of more money upon

illustrations than was possible in former years.


The Council wishes to express its obligations to all those

members who have helped the Executive by the generous donation

of subscriptions to the Illustration Fund and by the contribution of

articles to the Magazine. Especially indebted is the Society to

Mr. Astley, who has cheerfully devoted his time to the onerous

duties imposed upon him by the Editorship. In addition to the

large number of illustrations he has given to the Society, his articles

and notes have far exceeded in extent those of other members. In

this connection the Council ventures to repeat its appeal to members

to send in “ copy,” no matter how trivial the subject-matter may

appear to be. By so doing they can add enormously to the interest

of our periodical and relieve considerably the undue pressure of work

that falls upon the Editor, with whom the sole responsibility for the

monthly production of each number of the Magazine rests.



