FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR I906. 
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Yorkshire Marine Biology Committee. 
' [No report received.] 
The following- were elected for 1907 : — 
Chairman— Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., Sheffield. 
Convener — Rev. F. H. Woods, Bainton. 
Representative on Executive — E. Howarth, Sheffield. 
Other Members— Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A , West Ayton ; 
G. Massee, Kew ; T. H. Nelson, Redcar ; S. Lister 
Petty, Ulverston ; J. Eraser Robinson, Hull ; F. W. 
Fierke, Hull ; W. Denison Roebuck, Leeds ; Rev. H. 
Smith, M.A., Redcar ; and Arnold T. Watson, Sheffield ; 
and J. D. Butterell, Wansford. 
Wild Birds' and Eg"g*s' Protection Committee.— Mr. 
R. Fortune writes : — Your Committee have to report an active 
and fairly successful year. They have endeavoured to bring- the 
three County Councils into line, so as to simplify the Wild Birds' 
Protection Orders for the County, but so far without much success. 
Through the efforts of the Committee, ample protection was 
afforded to the pair of Peregrine Falcons that put in an appearance 
on Bempton Cliffs this season, and it is pleasant to report that 
three young were successfully reared and that both the old and the 
young birds got safely away. This is the more significant when it 
is borne in mind that it is at least 35 years since any young Falcons 
were reared on that part of the coast, and it is several years since 
any have attempted to nest there. 
A reward for their protection was offered and paid to the 
climbers by the officers of the Committee. The climbers loyally 
carried out the agreement made, despite several bribes offered by 
individuals not resident in the County, for the young birds. 
Although the reward offered w^as subscribed by the officers of the 
committee, the general public evinced a good deal of interest in 
the matter, and one gentleman, W. H. St. Quintin, Esq., J. P., 
voluntarily forwarded £1 towards the Protection Fund. 
Another pair of Peregrines attempted to nest on the slopes of 
Ingleborough, but unsuccessfully, owing to some local individuals 
endeavouring to shoot the Falcons. With regard to this episode, 
it is gratifying to note the increase of public opinion in the matter 
of the protection of wild nature ; this caused such a hue and cry to 
be raised, led by the Y.N. U. Committee, ably supported by the 
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, that the police admitted 
that they were obliged to institute proceedings against the culprit ! 
The prosecution did not result in a conviction, but as the magi- 
strates observed, attention had been drawn to the matter, and the 
police acknowledged to the great interest taken by the public, that 
nothing but good could come from the action of your committee in 
spurring on the police. 
