9S 
. NATURE NOTES. 
“ The Council would again urge members to do their utmost to establish new 
branches, since it is mainly through the Branches that the Society can carry out 
its objects. The attention of Branch Committees is called to the request that a 
monthly report of the proceedings of their respective Branches be forwarded to 
the Secretary of the Council or to the Editor of the Magazine. The publication 
of these reports serves not only to advise the members of the work being per- 
formed by their Branches and the general public of the aims and progress of the 
Society, but also as an incentive to new Branches to emulate the zeal of the 
more energetic organisations. 
“ How a Branch may in some cases be better able to carry out the aims of the 
Society than the central body may be seen by a reference (i) to the reported 
extermination of the great skua gull and the projected wholesale collection of sea 
birds’ eggs in the Shetland Isles, matters which have lately engaged the atten- 
tion of the Forth Branch in Scotland, or (2) to the reported devastation of the 
famous Cheddar Cliffs and the absence of squirrels in the New Forest — questions 
which were referred by the Council to the Bath and New Forest Branches 
respectively to be dealt with by them. 
“ The Council would take this opportunity to refer to the wanton and cruel 
destruction of sea birds and eggs on Grassholm Island on Whit Monday last by a 
party landing from H.M.S. “Sir Richard Fletcher.” By the aid of the S.P.C.A. 
the offenders were brought to justice. The thanks of the Society were given to 
Mr. Colam, of the S.P.C.A., and to Mr. Thomas, the correspondent of the 
Daily Graphic, an eyewitness who was instrumental in calling public attention to 
the outrage.” 
The Financial Report of the Hon. Treasurer was as follows : — 
1S90.— GENERAL FUND OF THE SELBORNE SOCIETY. 
Dr. 
Cr. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
To Balance Irom 1889 ... 
26 
19 
5 
By Rent ol Office 
30 
0 
0 
,, Subscriptions, less those 
,, Secretary 
25 
0 
0 
returned to Branches 
91 
0 
6 
,, Office Expenses 
17 
17 
II 
,, Sale of Receipt Books, 
,, Design for ReceiptBook 
3 
1 1 
0“ 
Prospectuses, &c. .. 
4 
14 
3 
,, Messrs. Waterlow 
,, Contributions by 
(Receipt Forms) 
4 
5 
0 
Branches 
39 
8 
ni 
,, Messrs. Bale (General 
,, Sale of“ NatureNotes ” 
Account) 
9 
15 
6 
— to Branches 
10 S 
3 
8 
,, Messrs. Bale (Printing 
,, Messrs. Sotheran 
,, Advertisements in 
I I 
3 
8 
“ Nature Notes”) ... 
,, Advertising “Nature 
Notes” 
20 s 
14 
3t 
“NatureNotes” ... 
So 
0 
O 
9 
l6 
I I 
,, Editorial Expenses of 
“ Nature Notes ” ... 
10 
9 
2 
,, Balance 
12 
O 
Si 
£ 
33 1 
10 
Si 
£331 
10 
5i 
J. L. Otter, Hon. Treasurer of the Sellorne Society. 
Examined and found correct, 
M. Wolryche-Whitmore. 
The receipts of the Branches of the Selborne Society for 1890 are, approxi- 
mately, ^300, arid their expenditure, approximately, ,£245, exclusive of contri- 
" This item is composed of a payment of £2 IOS. still owed to Mr. Fahey for the old design for 
receipt form, and £ 1 is. to Mr. John Swain. The £4 5s. was paid to Messrs. Waterlow for 
books of receipt forms in the design presented to the Society by Professor F. E. Hulme. 
t This sum includes £ 6 for carriage of magazines to Branches, £\2 for despatching magazines 
to subscribers, £10 8s. for postage of magazines to subscribers, £-j 10s. for printing 10,000 
circulars, (.2 2s. 6d. for 4,000 slips applying for subscriptions to Selborne Society, so that the 
sum actually paid for printing Nature; Notes was £160 13s. gd. 
