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Zb e Selbonte Society’s flftaoa3hie 
No. 108. DECEMBER, 1898. Vol. IX. 
SELBORN I AN A. 
Financial Position of the Society.— We are sorry to have 
to announce that the members have as yet made scarcely any 
response to the appeal addressed to them in our two latest num- 
bers; so that the Society is still hampered by want of funds. 
We can, however, call attention to the action of the Farnham 
Branch as announced on a later page, and we have received the 
following letter from one correspondent : — “ With regard to the 
financial statement appearing in the November issue, I propose 
to double the amount of my usual subscription due in January 
next, and venture to suggest that if each member would adopt 
this course, it would go far to rectify the adverse balance of 
^92 19s.— W." 
Barbarity at the Crystal Palace. — We have received the 
following letter from Mr. H. R. Fillmer, Hon. Secretary of the 
Foreign Bird Exhibitors’ League : — 
“ In reference to your remarks in Nature Notes for Novem- 
ber, under the above heading, will you allow me to point out : — 
“ (1) That the recent Crystal Palace Show was organised by 
two Societies, each of which had exclusive management of its 
own section, and that the Foreign Bird Exhibitors’ League had 
nothing whatever to do with the British birds at the Show. 
“ (2) That the three judges named by you were judges in the 
foreign section, and had no more to do with the British birds 
than you had. I believe that none of them are members of the 
National British Bird and Mule Club, which was alone re- 
sponsible for the British section. 
“ (3) That the exhibitors, and not the managers of the Show, 
provide the cages, and that the Committee have no power in the 
matter. 
