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In consequence of this, last year about 
two hundred nests of both species of 
Terns and more than three hundred 
eggs were observed \ It is to be 
wished that the success attending the 
efforts of the Irish Society for the 
Protection of Birds may be imitated 
by other societies in other parts of 
the British Isles. 
Again, associations and clubs of 
public benefit have co-operated for 
the protection of natural monuments. 
The Kyrle Society, founded in 1877 
aims at bringing beauty, in the 
widest sense of the term, home to 
the people. The society undertakes 
to secure open places and to prevent 
spaces being illegally built upon, and 
to co-operate with local societies for the 
preservation of commons and places 
1 Williams, A. Wild Bird Protection in Co. 
Dublin. The Irish Naturalist^ Vol. xvii. Dublin, 
1908, p. 119. 
