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first president elected was Mr. Esquilant, and Mr. Jones became first secretary of the new society, 
now termed the National Peristeronic. To Mr. Esquilant succeeded in the leadership of the 
society, Mr. Jayne, Mr. Ord, Mr. Tegetmeier, Mr. Betty, and Mr. Merck. In succession to Mr. 
Jones, came as secretaries, Messrs. Betty, Howard, and Whitehead. For a time this society’s 
meetings were held at the Covent Garden Hotel, but have now again reverted to the Freemason’s 
Tavern. Of the National Peristeronic Society it may be said that it holds the position of the 
first pigeon society of the day, with nearly a hundred members ; its fortnightly meetings are 
well attended, and its annual grand show at the Crystal Palace is always an event for fanciers. 
Influential societies, most of which have a large and increasing membership, have been also 
successfully established in other large cities. The chief of these are at Birmingham, Manchester 
(called the “Northern Counties Columbarian Society’’), Liverpool, Leeds, and Newcastle, in 
England ; while the Northern Columbarian Society has its head-quarters in Glasgow, and there is 
another influential society in Edinburgh. But most of these are of comparatively recent growth, 
and they are not identified with the history of pigeon-culture as are those above named. It is not 
therefore consistent with the plan or objects of this work to mention them, particularly as almost 
every considerable town boasts a society of some sort, and names and officers are continually 
changing, which makes it impossible to embody such information in a complete or permanent 
form. It is otherwise with the metropolitan societies. Their past is the past of the fancy itself ; 
and hence it is that, before parting with our readers, we have endeavoured to place on record such 
brief outlines of their history and — if we may call it so — genealogy as may give the fancier of 
the present day some general conception of the means and of the men by which and by whom 
the pets he delights in were cultivated and handed down to him. 
