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Zhc Selborne Society’s ^IT>aoa3inc. 
No. 172. APRIL, 1904. VoL. XV. 
OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
To promote the study of Natural History. To preserve from 
needless destruction such wild animals and plants as are harm- 
less, beautiful, or rare. To discourage the wearing and use for 
ornament of: (i) The skins and furs of such animals as are 
in danger of being exterminated ; (2) birds and their plumage, 
except when the birds are killed for food, reared for their 
plumage, or are known to be injurious. To protect places and 
objects of natural beauty or antiquarian interest from ill- 
treatment or destruction. To afford facilities for combined effort 
in promoting any of the above or kindred objects. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Annual Meeting and Conversazione. — Members will 
notice that May 27 has been fixed as the date for this year’s 
Annual Meeting and Conversazione, and that the Council have 
been able to secure for that occasion the use of the spacious 
theatre and rooms of the Civil Service Commission at Burlington 
House, formerly the University of London, which many will 
associate with the recent Nature-Study Exhibition and with the 
meetings of the Royal Geographical Society. Attention is also 
directed to the Council’s request for the offer of objects for 
exhibition. 
Beddgelert Tramway Scheme. — The Light Railway Com- 
mission have submitted to the Board of Trade a scheme for an 
electric railway from Bettws y Coed to Beddgelert. The Com- 
mission have, we believe, promised to submit the scheme to the 
National Trust ; but it appears to many lovers of this beautiful 
district that the scheme is incapable of improvement and should 
