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NATURE NOTES 
Society for the Protection of Birds. Eleventh Annual Report, 1901. 
This seems an altogether satisfactory report of a good year's work. The 
democratic twopence for registration, and still more the shilling subscription for 
Associates, finds ample justification in a roll of over 4,500 Associates, though it 
seems a pity, if registration means what its name implies, that the Report is unable 
to give the total membership. The Balance Sheet, showing an ability to invest 
7^250 in the year, and no undue proportion of working expenses, seems also 
satisfactory, though we own to the hope that the next will show a yet larger 
expenditure on watchers. Of the value of the Society’s work it is needless to 
speak here. 
Haileybury Natural Science Society. Report for 1901. 
This is an unpretentious record of good work. A membership of 150 is 
decidedly encouraging ; but the proportion of workers, as usual, does not appear 
to be large. The comparative completeness of a small but business-like Museum 
is a subject for congratulation, while the notion of a prize for knowledge of bird- 
song is a most valuable one. 
Report of the Hampstead Scientific Society, 1901. 
We sincerely hope that this Society has not, to use an expressive Americanism, 
“ bitten olf more than it can chew.” Its programme is certainly most ambitious ; 
but if it maintains its present rate of progress it may yet continue to offer its 
subscribers its present handsome return for a low minimum subscription. We 
have to condole with our friends in the loss, since this Report came into our 
hands, of their illustrious President, Sir Richard Temple. 
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Thirty-sixth 
Annual Report. 
The parent American Society has reason to be proud of its many daughters 
throughout the United States. Its Report is satisfactory, but we read its 
monthly journal. Our Animal Friends, with greater pleasure, since the executive 
persist in illustrating every annual report with revolting photographs of the 
victims of the cruelty against which they war. Does this serve any good 
purpose ? 
Devonia. United Devon Association Directory and Visitors' Gazette. No. i, 
February — March, 1902. Price 2d. 
Fair Devon has adopted the .American motto : — 
“ Early to bed and early to rise 
Will do you no good if you don’t advertise ; ” 
and is apparently intending to issue this new journal seven or eight times a year. 
The first number strikes us as more suited for gratuitous distribution among those 
benighted people who know not Devonshire, than to interest Devonians, and we 
would therefore urge upon its promoters the desirability of a series of papers on 
Devonshire subjects, treated in such a manner as to add to the natives’ knowledge 
of their lovely country. Much of the most energetic part of the work of the 
United Devon Association is distinctly Selbornian in character. 
The Humanitarian (with which is incorporated “ Humanity"), the Journal of the 
Humanitarian League, vol. i.. No. I, March. Price id. 
We congratulate our friends on being at length able to assume for their 
Journal the title which naturally belongs to it. 
The Country. Edited by Harry Roberts. No. i, March, 1902. Messrs. Dent 
and Co. Price fid. net. 
We welcome this beautifully-got-up monthly, devoted to the life, sports and 
industry of the country. The frontispiece is a capital portrait of Dean Hole, and 
there are, inter alia, well-illustrated articles on John Parkinson by Mr. A. F. 
Sieveking, and on the Privet Hawk-moth by Mr. W. F. Kirby, and a drawing 
by Mr. Railton of Moreton Hall. We will only venture to make three slight 
suggestions: (i.) The “Contents” on the wrapper should have references to 
