REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 19 22



In reviewing the past year the Council desires to explain to Members

of the Society that the production of the Magazine has been seriously

hampered in two ways :—first, the high cost of printing, which has

made it necessary not only to forego the luxury of plates but also to

keep each part to a maximum of sixteen pages : and second, the

difficulty of securing the necessary contributions which has been the

prime cause of the unavoidable delay resulting in each issue being

nearly a month behind its time. There are, however, favourable signs

of an increase in membership and of a fall in the cost of production ;

and with the starting of a new series in 1923, with the special illus¬

trated articles on Aviculture, made possible by the generosity of

subscribers, the Council looks forward to the future with complete

confidence in the success of the Magazine.


They wish to tender their grateful thanks to all who have contributed

to the upkeep of the Society during 1922, to the authors who readily

responded, often at a moment’s notice, to the appeal for “ copy ”, to the

subscribers to the Illustration and General Funds, to the Editors,

Secretary, and Treasurer, and to Mr. T. H. Newman who kindly prepared

the index to the present volume.


Finally, they wish to record their sense of the great loss the Society

sustained in the untimely death of their colleague, Mr. Bonhote, who

as a member of Council, as Editor, Treasurer, and Secretary, was for

many years an energetic and enthusiastic worker in the interests of

Aviculture.


Signed for the Council.


E. Maud Knobel,


Hon. Business Secretary.



December, 1922.



