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and in. the National Trust we have a body equipped with the 

 necessary authority to take over and safeguard such gifts of land as 

 may be made by public enterprise or private liberality. Much has 

 already been accomplished in this direction by certain societies and 

 individuals ; but all students and lovers of Nature generally are now 

 invited to combine in support of the Society for the Promotion of 

 Nature Reserves. 



This society has recently been formed with the following 

 objects : — 



1. To collect and collate information as to areas of land in the 

 United Kingdom which retain their primitive conditions and contain 

 rare and local species liable to extinction owing to building, drainage, 

 and disafforestation, or in consequence of the cupidity of collectors. 

 All such information to be treated as strictly confidential. 



2. To prepare a scheme showing which areas should be secured. 



3. To obtain these areas and hand them over to the National 

 Trust under such conditions as may be necessary. 



4. To preserve for posterity as a national possession some part at 

 least of our native land, its fauna, flora, and geological features. 



5. To encourage tbe love of Nature, and to educate public 

 opinion to a better knowledge of the value of Nature study. 



The soeiety exacts no subscription; members are formally elected 

 by invitation of the Executive Committee (marked with * below), 

 and all interested are invited to communicate with the secretaries. 

 The control of the society's affairs is in the hands of a representative 

 council consisting at present of the following : — 



President, the Right Hon. J. W. Lowther, M.P. Dr. I. Bayley 

 Balfour, F.R.S., Sir Edward H. Busk, Sir Francis Darwin, F.R.S., 

 Dr. F. D. Drewitt, :: G. Claridge Druee, Professor J. Bretland Farmer, 

 F.R.S., L. Fletcher, F.R.S., the Right Hon. Sir Edward Grey, Bt., 

 E.G., M.P., the Right Hon. L. V. Harcourt, M.P., -Sir Robert 

 Hunter, K.C.B., Lord Lucas, *B. G. B. Meade- Waldo, *the Hon. 

 E. S. Montagu, M.P., the Earl of Plymouth, C.B., Professor E. B. 

 Poulton, F.R.S., Sir David Prain, F.R.S., -the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, 

 W. H. St. Quintin, Dr. R. F. Scharff, W. M. Webb. Ex-officio: 

 Hon. Treasurer, *C. E. Fagan, I.S.O. ; Hon. Secretaries, *W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Grant and -the Hon. F. R. Henley. 



The Trustees of the British Museum have kindly given per- 

 mission to the committee to use the Natural History Museum, 

 Cromwell Road, London, S.W., as the temporary address of the 

 society. 



