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Zbc Sdborne Society’s nr>aoa3inc 
No. 179. NO\’EMBEK, 1904. Vol. XV. 
OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
To promote the study of Natural History. To preserve from 
needless destruction such wild animals and p^lants 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. 
Feathers Not to be Worn. — Some dissatisfaction has been 
felt at the wording of the objects of the Society, as recently 
re-cast and as set forth above. The Council has, therefore, sum- 
moned a Special General Meeting for the 22nd inst., detailed 
notice of which is given at the end of the Magazine, to discuss 
a proposed amendment of the Rules, which will virtually restore 
the “ Objects ” of the Society to their previous form, although 
the wording is somewhat simplified. By the proposed alteration 
it will be made clear that it is the wish of the Society to protect 
all wild birds from being destroyed for the sake of their plumage. 
Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon. — Our intervention in 
this matter, in favour of delay for reconsideration, has been fully 
justified. At a meeting of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust on 
October 12 it was decided not to pull down the cottages adjoin- 
ing the birthplace. The Carnegie Free Library, which has 
been recently completed, is very unlike the buildings which we 
generally associate with the name Free Library in our larger 
towns, being a half-timbered cottage-like erection, far more in 
keeping with its surroundings than other buildings put up in 
Henley Street in modern times. 
