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Ornamental Pheasant Society Notes



ORNAMENTAL PHEASANT SOCIETY NOTES


The Zoological Society very kindly lent the Ornamental Pheasant

Society their Offices for the Society’s Summer General Meeting, which was

held on 21st July.


The Meeting was a success and there were very few of the thirty-

one members present who did not express their feelings on some of the

important subjects on the Agenda.


After Monsieur Delacour had been elected to the Chair and the Secretary

had read the Minutes, a discussion followed on the possibility of establishing

a “ Standard of Perfection ” for Pheasants. The subject was raised as the

result of a letter to the President from Mr. W. J. Parsonson, and it

was eventually decided that the Society should complete a paper on the

Golden and Amherst Pheasants, but the other species could not be definitely

defined.


The meeting agreed that Mrs. Cawley’s suggestion of the Society having

its own Christmas Cards should be carried out. The nature of the card should

be left for the Committee to decide later.


A subscription of 10s. was proposed by Mr. Beever. It did not meet lively

support and was turned down after obtaining 7 votes out of 31. Whilst on

the subject of subscriptions the Society passed a proposal that annual sub¬

scriptions should be paid on 1st January of every year.


The important subject of showing was next on the agenda and Mr. Bennett

pointed out to the meeting that there was a deficiency of rules for members to

follow. This will be corrected, as Major Elliot Benham kindly offered to post

every possible exhibitor a fist of rules to apply to every patronized show.


The only possible improvement for the Journal was suggested by

Miss Knobel. In future the list of members’ names will have the initials after

the surname instead of before.


The meeting offered its apologies to Monsieur Malisoux for omitting his

name from the list of editors in the last Journal and also passed a vote of

thanks to the Secretary and Editors.


After a long discussion the meeting passed Major Elliot Benham’s sugges¬

tion of the Society publishing a Bulletin every other month. He agreed to

become the Editor of this Bulletin in conjunction with Mr. P. J. Lambert.

The paper will contain small articles, news of the Society, and space for

members advertisements.


The question of the importation of Pheasants brought a lot of speakers

to their feet. Rev. Venner was prominent in this discussion and on the motion

of the Chairman it was decided that the best the Society could do was to

support the International Society for the Protection of Birds.


This very productive meeting was closed after a hearty vote of thanks

to the Chairman.


A pleasing luncheon followed at which there were forty-one members

present.



Jerome F. Lambert.



