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and Mrs. F. W. Hewitt-Ketley, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Hook, 
Mr. John Hopkinson, F.L.S. (Honorary Secretary of the Ray 
Society), Mr. Rashleigh Holt-White, the Rev. H. N. Hutchin- 
son, B.A., F.G.S., and Mrs. Hutchinson, Mr. T. H. W. Idris, 
M.P., Dr. Robert Jones, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Kennard, Miss 
Latham, Mr. T. A. Lehfeldt, Mr. and Mrs. Montague Lubbock, 
Sir Charles, Lady and Miss Winifred Lyall, Miss Lyle, Dr. and 
Mrs. Maples, Lady Martin, Mrs. Ord Marshall, Mrs. McKay, 
]\Iiss Dorothy Meihe, Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Muhlberg, Mrs. 
Percy Myles, Mr. E. A. Nash, Mr. Myddelton Nash, Mrs. Nash, 
Mr. Philip Norman, Mr. Milton Offord, Mr. Alfred W. Oke, 
Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Paley, Mr. H. H. Poole (Honorary 
Librarian), Mr. F. W. Rudler, I.S.O., F.G.S., Mr. F. McNeil 
Rushforth, Dr. and Mrs. Dukinfield Scott, Councillor and Mrs. 
H. W. Simpson, Miss Tench, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Castle Turner, 
Mr. and Mrs. R. Marshman Wattson, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. 
M^aterhouse, Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S. (Honorary 
Secretary), Mrs. Wilfred Mark Webb, Mr. and Mrs. W. Percival 
Westell, Miss Wood, Mrs. J. H. Yoxall, and Miss Stella Yoxall. 
At 8 o’clock Dr. Dudley Buxton, the Chairman of Council, 
received the guests in the Theatre, and half an hour later the 
President, Lord Avebury, took the chair. He said : — 
“ We all look forward to the Annual Meeting of the Selborne 
Society as one of the most delightful and interesting evenings of 
the year, thanks to the excellent arrangements of the Council and 
our indefatigable Secretary, Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb. It comes 
at the most delicious moment of the year. As Christina Rossetti 
said : — 
The days are clear 
Day after day. 
When April’s here 
That leads to May, 
And June 
Must follow soon. 
Slay, June, stay ! 
If only we could stop the moon 
And June ! 
“ This year the Selborne Meeting seems to have brought the 
spring with it. 
“ I sometimes think we might take as a motto for the Selborne 
Society the beautiful text in Philippians : ‘ Whatsoever things 
are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are 
just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, 
whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, and 
if there be any praise, think on these things.’ That injunction 
the members of the Selborne Society do their best to follow. 
“ The object of the Society, moreover, is to preserve. Unfor- 
tunately, as population increases, there is a tendency to root up 
beautiful flowers and to destroy the most beautiful birds. 
“ We have done our best to counteract this. The use of the 
so-called Egret feathers has been abandoned in the Army because 
