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REPORT. 
Several articles giving accounts of the efforts being made to secure 
the purchase, and dedication to the public as an open space, of Church- 
yard Bottom Wood, Highgate, have appeared in Nature Notes. The 
wood is the property of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are 
willing to sell it for ^25,000. Of this sum, £\zf>oo still remains to be 
made up. A joint Committee has been formed, to which the Society 
has elected representative members, and hopes are entertained that the 
required amount may be subscribed before June 30th, up to which date 
the offer remains open. At an interview with the St. Pancras Vestry 
the Committee asked for a contribution of £2,000. The application was 
referred to the General Purposes Committee with the Vestry’s unanimous 
expression of opinion that it should be acceded to. The London 
and Middlesex County Councils will, it is believed, largely contribute. 
Full particulars on the subject will be found in the circular which will 
be issued with the June number of the Society’s magazine. 
The Financial Statement for 1895 herewith presented to the 
Society. It appears at the end of this Report. 
WORK OF THE BRANCHES. 
The Council has much pleasure in embodying in its Annual Report 
the following accounts of the meetings and work of branches. The 
Council wishes again to thank the honorary secretaries of all the 
branches for their labours on behalf of the Society, and such branches as 
are not mentioned here are omitted only because their work has not been 
specially brought to the notice of the Council, either by means of a 
report or through the Magazine. 
Barmouth Branch. — This Branch of the Selborne Society did not 
greatly increase in numbers during last year, but continued to do much 
practical work. 
A Bill was brought forward, at the Society’s request — for the Protec- 
tion of Wild Birds, in the county of Merioneth — at the County Council t 
but was only carried for a very small area. The Secretary is now in 
communication with others interested in the question, and it is hoped 
that the Act will be enforced before long. 
The Society last year rented from the District Urban Council a 
beautiful place near Barmouth, known as the Panorama Hill. The 
President of the Society restored the Shed which had been used for 
refreshments, and was in an unsightly condition ; and a caretaker was 
kept there during the summer months whose duty it was to remove daily 
all picnic fragments left by visitors. The result was most satisfactory. 
Lectures were given at intervals ; among the lecturers being Miss 
Frances Power Cobbe, Miss Marianne Farningham, Miss Blanche 
Atkinson, Rev. G. Mather, Rev, E. Davies, Mr. Owen Edwards, and 
others. 
The Society for the Protection of Birds lent their Bird .Slides, which 
were shown for a second time, while a pajjer was read by the .Secretary, 
D. A. Hughes, Esq. 
Bath Branch. — Mrs. Wheatcroft, the Honorary Secretary, sends 
three rotas which give a list of sixteen excursions and lectures since 
last May. la some cases, papers on different subjects have been read 
on the spot. This year Mr. Scott read a paper on “ The Antiquities at 
Bradford Mr. Norman, one on “The Site of the Old Castle at Eng- 
lishcombe Mr. Skrine, one on “The Bclgic Camp.” The number of 
members and associates is about 300. The Library has been added to 
and now contains some very good works. The Committee regrets to 
