Il’lature IRotes : 
Zhc Selborne Society’s flDaoasine. 
No. 175. JULY, 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. 
ANNUAL MEETING AND CONVERSAZIONE. 
ELD in the Theatre and Halls at the Offices of the Civil 
Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, New Bond 
Street, W., kindly lent for the occasion by the Com- 
missioners, the Annual Meeting and Conversazione on 
Friday evening. May 27, proved an unqualified and gratifying 
success. Despite the extremely unpleasant weather there was 
a very much larger muster than last year. Members and their 
friends attending to the number of quite 500, and among those 
present were the President, Lord Avebury, the Rev. Prof. 
Henslow, Prof. F. E. Hulme, Mr. A. Holte Macpherson, Mrs. 
Percy Myles, IMr. C. M. Muhlberg, Mr. G. Avenell (Chairman of 
the Council), Mr. W. M. Webb (Hon. Librarian), Prof. Bertram 
H. Bentley, M.A., F.L.S., IMr. Fred Enock, F.L.S., F.E.S., 
Prof. G. S. Boulger, and Mr. R. Marshman Wattson. Letters 
of regret for inability to attend were received from the American 
Ambassador, the Duke of Bedford, Sir John Cockburn, Sir Robert 
Hunter, and the Right Hon. James Bryce. 
