IFlature IKlotes : 
^Cbe Selborne Society’s HDagasine. 
No. 126. JUNE, 1900. VoL. XL 
ANNUAL MEETING AND CONVERSAZIONE. 
HE Society’s Annual Meeting and Conversazione took 
place on Thursday evening, May 17, at 20, Hanover 
Square, W. The attendance, though perhaps a little 
below the average of previous years, was a full and 
representative one. 
In the unavoidable absence of the President, Lord Avebury, 
D.C.L., F.R.S., through the death of a near relative, the chair 
was taken by the Right Hon. James Bryce, M.P. 
Mr. Bryce being, however, unable to arrive by eight o’clock, 
the Rev. Professor Henslow, F.L.S., F.G.S., first took the chair, 
and read the following Annual Report of the Council ; 
The Council of the Selborne Society has pleasure in presenting to the mem- 
bers its Report on the fourteenth year of the Society’s work. 
The death of Sir William Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S., has deprived the Society 
of one of its most valued vice-presidents and supporters. 
The Society’s magazine, Nature Notes, under the editorship of Professor 
Boulger, continues to arouse increasing interest and approval. To its publica- 
tion the Council can confidently point as a sufficient justification for the existence 
of the Selborne Society, and the Council looks forward to the day — which it is 
hoped may not be very distant — when the state of the finances may permit of its 
enlargement. The editor would have no difficulty in filling month by month 
many more pages with contributions from the members and, did funds permit, 
would be glad to see those pages more adequately illustrated than they are 
perforce at the present time. 
It is in contemplation to invite some of the kindred societies to send their 
representatives to the meetings of council in the hope that they may thus make 
more efficient use of the Magazine. It is felt that the Society’s organ forms a 
unique channel for the publication of news of interest to the members of the 
Selborne Society and to those who hold similar opinions. It can fairly be 
claimed that much of the tendency of the modern press and of the local bodies 
towards the holding of better views on the subjects most dear to the hearts of 
all true Selbornians is due to the education of the public by this Society, and 
principally by its Magazine. 
