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No 165. SEPTEMBER, 1903. Vol. XIV. 
OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
To preserve from unnecessary destruction such wild birds, 
animals and plants as are harmless, beautiful, or rare. To 
discourage the wearing and use for ornament of birds and their 
plumage, except when the birds are killed for food or reared 
for their plumage. To protect places and objects of antiquarian 
interest or natural beauty from ill-treatment or destruction. To 
promote the study of natural history. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Nature-Study Exhibition. — It has now been decided that 
the Home Counties Nature-Study Exhibition is to be held, 
from October 30 to November 3, at the offices of the Civil Service 
Commission. Particulars can be obtained from the Secretary, 
Wilfred Mark Webb, Esq., F.L.S., 20, Hanover Square, W. 
Wounded Grouse. — Before the opening of the shooting 
season, Colonel Coulson sent the following temperate appeal to 
sportsmen through the Daily Mail : — 
“Sir,— I n a few days the slaughter of grouse, &c., will recommence. May 
I put in a plea for the numbers that, owing to ‘driving,’ will be left, midst 
glorious scenery, to sob out their lives in pain and distress? 
“ Wounded birds there always have been and will be ; but under the new 
conditions of shooting the number is, necessarily, much increased. It is a sad 
thought, this leaving for hours, if not for days, maimed and helpless atoms of 
sentient life. 
“ It seems the one blot, for life has to go, connected with a day on the moors. 
All the rest is so beautiful — the purple heather, the grand air and scenery, the 
clear-running rivulet, the hum of bees, the scent of wild flowers — what a charm 
there is in it all 1 
