ANNUAL MEETING 
103 
“Junior Branches. 
“ The Council is anxious to promote the study of natural history on the lines 
of the Society among juveniles, and, with this object, to encourage the formation 
of Junior Branches. The Council appeals, therefore, to the principals of 
colleges and schools throughout the country to assist in the formation of such 
Branches in their representative schools, or to allow existing school natural 
history societies to become affiliated to the Selborne Society. 
“ In order to form a Junior Branch it is necessary that there shall be at least 
one adult to undertake the responsibility of the conduct of such Branch, who 
must be a full member of the Society and p.iy a minimum subscription of five 
shillings. With this exception, the members of the Branch will pay such sub- 
scriptions as may be decided upon by their own committee. (This may be 
fixed as low as is necessary in order to bring associateship within easy reach of 
even the poorest school children.) The rules as to Junior Branches are : — 
“ (l) That a Junior Branch may be formed, at a school or elswhere, of persons 
under age, upon the written application of an adult, who shall be held respon- 
sible for the conduct of such Branch, shall be a full member of the Society, and 
shall represent the Branch upon the Council. 
“ (2) That Junior Branches be subject to the general rules of the Society, 
with the following exceptions; (a) That the subscriptions of members of Junior 
Branches be. fixed by their respective Committees, but only such members as 
subscribe 5s. per annum and upwards shall be full members of the Selborne 
Society. ( 3 ) That no payment be due from Junior Branches to the General 
Fund except one annual subscription of not less than 5s. (c) That each Junior 
Branch be entitled to receive the Magazine, {d) That the members of Junior 
Branches be styled Associates of the Selborne Society.” 
As a result of this invitation Junior Branches have been formed at Epsom 
College, Wellington College and Tonbridge School, in addition to three pre- 
viously in existence at Dover College, “ Quernmore,” Bromley, and Hatfield. 
In conclusion, the Council desires to tender its cordial thanks to all those who 
have so kindly assisted in carrying on the work during the past year, and would 
especially desire to record its gratitude to the honorary secretaries of the various 
branches, and to the gentlemen who have so kindly given their services as 
lecturers and as guides at the rambles both at head-quarters and on behalf of the 
branches. 
For further details of the work of the branches and of the general work of 
the Society, the members are referred to the pages of the Magazine. 
It should, however, be noticed that, owing to the reluctance of several of the 
branch secretaries to appear in print, the Society is deprived of the knowledge of 
the valuable work so often done by the branches, and secretaries are reminded 
that the Editor of the Magazine is always particularly desirous of receiving 
accounts of branch news and of branch meetings. 
Professor Henslow having moved the adoption of the Report 
from the chair. Sir Robert Hunter, M.A., in seconding the 
adoption, referred to the Society’s work, during the year past, in 
preserving the beauties of wild nature against the inroads of 
industrialism, so fast encroaching on the world’s green places. 
A movement with which the Society was in strong sympathy 
was that for preserving monumental remains. He was pleased 
to say that a Bill for the better preservation of ancient monu- 
ments had been approved of by Parliament during the course 
of the past year. He was of opinion that such good work as 
this would be more and more the care of municipal and local 
authorities, not of the central Government, and spoke with 
approbation of the action of the London County Council in 
preserving a land-mark of old London, the misnamed Cardinal 
Wolsey’s Palace in Fleet Street. 
