January 1959 saw the publication of Journal No. 100 produced 
under the editorship of Mrs M. Aldridge. This contained a congrat- 
ulatory letter from Sir Evelyn Baring for the Society's 50th anniv- 
ersary. Myles E.W. North wrote an appreciation in which he stated 
that this was surely a great achievement, since funds for the 
publication of the Journal depended almost entirely on subscriptions 
from members. 
During 1959 Dr Leslie Brown gave an excellent film show and 
described to members his investigation of flamingo colonies in East 
Africa. One has only to read his book 'The Mystery of the Flamingoes* 
to realize the vast amount of work devoted to this subject. It was 
also in 1959 that the Society recorded with deep regret the death 
of Mr Hugh Copley C.B.E. An active member for 30 years, he played 
a notable part in keeping the Society going. He was an expert on 
marine life in Africa and contributed regularly to the Journ_al . 
The Museum Trustees were aware of the increasing value of the 
comprehensive library housed at the Museum and were in favour of 
a joint management oommittee representing both the Society and the 
Museum to supervise the running of the library. By July 1959 the 
librarian was employed under the control of the Museum Trustees and 
the Society's bookbinder was transfered to the museum staff. Miss 
Ossent, a long standing member of the committee, who had carried out 
much valuable work as honorary librarian was appointed as the Society's 
representative on this management committee. 
The Society, ever keen to widen its horizon, took part in a 
game census in the Nairobi National Park during I960. This was 
arranged by Mr S. Ellis, the game warden. Counts were held every 
month for several years and much valuable data was secured. 
Rings and mist nets were purchased by the Society in 1960 and 
the bird ringing scheme came into being. Miss Judy Blenoowe, a 
member of the committee undertook the work involved and a sub-comm- 
ittee was formed. This scheme was greatly needed as the work done 
•in the earlier part of the century by Sir Frederick Jackson and later 
by Dr van Someren, were still the only source of reference on migrant 
birds . 
The Society was very pleased to issue Dr R.H. Carcasson's work, 
'The Swallowtail Butterflies of Bast Africa' as a special supplement 
No. 6 in 1960. This work is still available to members and is of 
interest to amateur and professional entomologists. This was 
followed by further monographs on East African butterflies which Dr 
Carcasson offered to the Society, 
At this time Mrs Jean Hayes was elected to the Society and is 
now the editor of the Journal . Many members do not realise the 
vast amount of work involved and undertaken voluntarily, in the 
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