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NATURE NOTES 
The President proposed from the chair the adoption of the 
following Report of the Council (which was taken as read) as 
the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Society. 
I. — General. 
During the past year your Council has been actively employed 
in forwarding the various objects of the Society in a number of 
different directions. 
The Wakes. — Your Council heard with regret, which will 
doubtless be shared by all, of the serious damage done by the 
gale, in September last, to some of the trees planted by Gilbert 
White. 
II. — The Study of Natural History. 
Nature Study. — A prize of ten shillings was offered by 
your Council for the best Nature Diary in the Nature-Study 
Section (organised by your Librarian) at the Seventeenth 
Annual Exhibition of Arts, Crafts, and Industries at Hammer- 
smith, 1903. 
At the Home Counties’ Nature-Study Exhibition, in the 
organisation of which the Society took a prominent part, a 
number of prizes were offered by your Council, by the Com- 
mittee of the Hampstead Branch, and by individual members. 
They are as follows : Offered by the Council : — 
(1) For a Nature-Study painting by a pupil (value £i is.). 
(2) For an illustrated description of a ramble by a pupil 
(value £1 IS.). 
(3) For an illustrated description of a visit to a good museum 
(value £1 IS.). 
Offered by the Committee of the Hampstead Branch ; — 
(4) For an illustrated description of the work of a school 
Natural History Society (value £1 is.). 
Offered by Mrs. Brightwen, F.Z.S., F.E.S. (Vice- 
President) : — 
(5) For an illustrated description of a visit (books to the 
value oi £1). 
Offered by the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, B.A., F.L.S. : — 
(6) For a local collection (value £i is.). 
Offered by Mr. Wilfred S. Durrant (member of Council) : — 
(7) For a Nature Notebook (value £i is.). 
Offered by Mrs. Owen \'isger : — 
(8) For a Nature calendar (books to the value of ^i is.). 
Offered by Miss A. G. Redpath : — 
(9) For a Nature photograph (value los. 6d.). 
Offered by Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb (Honorary Librarian) : — 
(10) For a Nature Note-book, written by children under 
seven years of age (value los. 6d.). 
During the Exhibition a meeting of the Society was arranged 
on the evening of Tuesday, November 3 ; the Chairman of your 
