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^Cbe Selbome Society’s aDagasine 
No. 114. 
JUNE, 1899. 
VoL. X. 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
{Presented at the Annual Meetings May 31, 1899.) 
The Council of the Selborne Society has pleasure in presenting to the 
members its Report for the year 1898. 
In consequence of the interest roused in the neighbourhood of Sale, 
Manchester, owing to the recent lectures delivered by Dr. Graham Ren- 
shaw, in the course of which he drew attention to the objects of the 
Society, and to its magazine and leaflets, it has been decided to call a 
special meeting with a view to the formation of a new branch in the 
district. 
The large number of congratulatory letters received of late from 
members are a testimony of the increasing value of the magazine during 
the past year. 
The Council has been favoured with copies of all the excellent leaflets 
issued by the Board of Agriculture up to the present. Reference has 
been made to these leaflets from time to time in the magazine, and 
members are reminded that copies can be obtained on application to the 
Board of Agriculture. The supply of several of the leaflets issued by the 
Society having been exhausted, they have been reprinted. Amongst 
these may be mentioned that entitled “ The Cruelty of Wearing Ospreys,” 
by Mrs. Litchfield, which has been freely distributed by members without, 
however, apparently resulting in any reduction of the number of these 
feathers seen in ladies’ bonnets. 
Our President has succeeded in putting a stop to the use of the 
ospreys ” hitherto worn in some of the officers’ head-dresses, having 
obtained an assurance from the Under-Secretary of State for War that a 
new plume, not made from the feathers of the egret, should be substituted 
for that hitherto used. 
The resignation by Mr. Edward A. Martin of the honorary secretary- 
ship of the Magazine and Leaflet Committee is a cause of much regret to 
the Council. 
