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many influential Members of Parliament. The Secretary of the 
Selborne Society represents this body on the Executive of the 
National Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising, 
which is responsible for promoting the Bill. 
VI. — Publications. 
“ Nature Notes .” — All concerned have been striving during 
the year to improve the Magazine, and it will be allowed that 
their efforts have not been without some measure of success. 
For instance, the numerous complimentary references in the 
general Press show that the Magazine occupies an important 
place in the promotion of the study of Nature. More remains 
to be done, and the Council would still welcome any suggestions 
and an increase in the number of interesting contributions. The 
arrangement of the contents has recently been somewhat altered, 
partly in the hope of making it appeal more to those who are 
not yet members of our body. An alteration has also been 
made in the cover of the magazine and it is now sent out in 
envelopes instead of wrappers. Professor Boulger still con- 
tinues to act as Editor, and the hearty thanks of the Society are 
due to him for his continued services. 
Prospectus . — The Society now publishes an illustrated pro- 
spectus, which will be sent to any address on application to the 
Secretary. 
VII. — Library. 
In accordance with a suggestion thrown out in the last report 
considerable additions have been made — chiefly owing to the 
generosity of members — to the collections of the editions of the 
“ Natural History of Selborne.” A copy of the frontispiece 
from the first edition exhibited at the last Conversazione has 
also been purchased. 
Members continue to make use of the Library and the 
thanks of the Society should be accorded to the donors of 
the various volumes that have been presented, and to the 
Honorary Librarian, Mr. Hubert H. Poole, who has attended 
to this branch of its work. 
VIII. — Organisation. 
Membership . — The members of the Society on March 31, 
1906, numbered 1,801. 
Rules .- — One or two paragraphs of doubtful interpretation 
having been discovered in the Rules, the matter has been 
referred to the General Purposes Committee by the Council 
for consideration. 
Officers . — The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, who has acted as 
Chairman during the year, having gone to live near Brighton, 
has resigned his office, and Dr. Dudley Buxton has been elected 
by the Council in his stead. As already indicated, Mrs. Percy 
Myles has become Chairman and Mr. H. H. Poole Honorary 
Secretary of the new Excursions Committee. 
