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NATURE NOTES 
The resolution was carried unanimously. 
The following were the Officers elected : — 
President. 
The Right Hon. LORD AVEBURY, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. 
Vice-Presidents. 
O. V. Aplin, Esq., F. L.S. 
Prof. G. S. Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S. 
The Hon. Mrs. R. C. Boyle. 
Mrs. Bright wen, F. E.S. 
The Right Hon. James Bryce, M.P. 
Charles Burt, Esq., J.P. 
The Rev. H. E. U. Bull, M.A. 
Dudley W. Buxton, Esq., M.D. , D.Sc., 
M.R.C.P. 
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
The Hon. Sir J. Cockburn, K.C.M.G., M.D. 
The Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E. Grant 
Duff, G.C.S.I., F.R.S. 
W. Warde Fowler, Esq., M.A. 
The Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry. 
The Right Hon. Sir Edward Grey, M.P. 
The Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A. , F.L. S. 
Mrs. Arthur Hill. 
Prof. F. E. Hulme, F.L.S., F.S.A. 
Sir Robert Hunter, M.A. 
G. B. Longstaff, Esq., M.D. 
George Avenell, Esq. 
George Rowland Blades, Esq., F. R.G.S. 
F. Downing, Esq., F.S. I. 
Wilfred S. Durrant, Esq. 
C. M. Hailes, Esq. 
Basil W. Martin, Esq., F. Z.S. 
A. Holte Macpherson, Esq., B.C.L., M.A., 
F.Z.S. 
Mrs. Martelli. 
Mrs. Charles Matthews. 
Hon. J. Scott Montague, M.P.' 
G. M. Murray, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. 
G. A. Musgrave, Esq., F.Z.S. , F. R.G.S. 
Mrs. G. A. Musgrave. 
Mrs. Percy Myles. 
J. L. Otter, Esq. 
Earl Percy, M.P. 
Mrs. E. Phillips. 
The Rev. Canon H. D. Rawnsley, M.A. 
The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, M.P., 
B.Sc. 
R. Bowdler Sharpe, Esq., LL D., F.L.S. 
The Right Hon. the Earl of Selborne. 
The Right Hon. the Earl of Stamford. 
W. Whitaker, Esq., B.A., F.R.S. , F.G.S. 
R. Holt White, Esq. 
A. W. Wills, Esq. 
Council. 
Edward A. Martin, Esq., F.G.S. 
C. M. Miihlberg, Esq. 
George Pernet, Esq., M. R.C.S. 
1 R. Hedger Wallace, Esq. 
Wilfred Mark Webb, Esq., F.L.S. 
A. B. Wilkinson, Esq. 
Miss Corelli, in addressing the meeting, explained that she 
was present by the courteous permission of the President and 
Members of the Society to say a few words touching upon the 
widely discussed subject of the proposed desecration and spolia- 
tion of Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, by the local authorities 
of that town. There was no need to tell those present what 
Henley Street was, or how dear its very name had always been 
to the whole world. In it stood the humble birthplace of the 
greatest genius ever born — -William Shakspeare. Along the 
plain and unassuming way that mighty poet of all time walked 
as a young child, as a schoolboy, as a full-grown man, and on 
one of the houses still standing near his home, and built a year 
before he was born (1563) his eyes must have rested many 
a time and oft. For centuries Henley Street had been the 
chief aim and end of countless pilgrimages from every quarter 
of the globe. Every humble student or great professor of 
literature had. trodden its sacred ground. Poets, romancists 
and dramatists have met at the shrine of their devoutly breathed 
salutations, their silent thanksgiving to God for the genius 
of Shakspeare, Byron, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Ruskin, 
Carlyle, Emerson, Tennyson, and hosts of such men as those, 
in both the past and the present, had lingered in the old worn 
thoroughfare with thoughts too deep for tears. It had been 
to all the world of letters the very centre aisle of the Great 
