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No. 174. JUNB, 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. — As this meeting 
will have taken place on May 27, after we have gone to press, 
our report must be deferred until our July issue. 
Our Illustrations. — The two illustrations in the present 
number, which we owe to the courtesy of T. Fisher Unwin, 
Esq., are from Mrs. Brightwen’s “ Quiet Hours with Nature,” 
which we reviewed last month. They did not reach us in time 
for insertion in our last number. 
The Aigrette and the Press. — We are glad to notice 
that the Daily Chronicle of May 17 has an illustrated article on 
“ Wearing the Aigrette,” in which the trade tricks are exposed 
by which real birds and feathers are sold as “ artificial.” The 
wide-spread circulation of daily papers, such as the Daily Chronicle, 
reaching, as it does, thousands of persons who may never see a 
copy of Nature Notes, cannot fail to advance the causes they 
espouse, and we have in general every reason to be satisfied 
with the attitude of the daily press towards the objects of the 
Selborne Society. 
