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and Colonel Irby, whose admirable Report had materially assisted the 
Comity Councils. He was glad to know that other legislative 
measures were in prospect, especially directed against the bird-catcher. 
The resolution that the Report be adopted and circulated was 
carried. 
The Hon. and Rev. Canon Lyttelton, Headmaster of Hailey - 
bury College, moved the resolution to elect the Committee as set out 
in the Report. In doing so, he said he could not help alluding to 
the work of one member of the Committee in particular —namely, 
Mr. W. Kennedy, his colleague at Haileybury. Not long ago he 
gave a lecture on bird protection so full of true feeling that it had 
the most startling effect, fifty or sixty boys at once joining the 
Society. Canon Lyttelton considered it most desirable that public 
schools should be induced t 9 take up this subject. Mr. Kennedy’s 
lecture had been given here and there about the country—it was now 
in print and available for delivery with the accompaniment of some 
beautiful lantern slides. “ We have had,” continued the speaker, 
“ allusions made to the part that ought to be played by education. 
As I am somewhat closely connected with the subject of education, 
I may venture to remark that there is a right and wrong way of 
going about such work. It was brought to the notice of the Com¬ 
mittee in the course of last year that a most extraordinary scheme 
had emanated from the Education Office connected with object 
lessons to be given in schools. If you want young minds to take in 
things you must, it is said, submit them to their eyes; and in a 
portion of this document it was suggested that the love of animal 
and bird life was one of the things that ought to be taught. I am 
sorry to say this was accompanied with a recommendation that 
birds and portions of birds should be shown to the children to 
encourage their research and examination. It was owing to the 
courtesy of the Education Office that we were able to put that matter 
right immediately. What would have happened I cannot say, if there 
had been no Society to step in the breach there. It is not easy to 
move a public Office, and when you remember that the Educa¬ 
tion Office has a most enormous scope for its operations, and 
that when it gives an order, that order is instantly promulgated 
throughout England, you cannot but feel it a matter of congratula¬ 
tion that there was a Society in existence which could draw forcible 
attention to a slip of the pen which permitted such a direction to be 
put in.” In conclusion, Canon Lyttelton said: “ My only other duty 
is to make some reference to two ladies who are just retiring from 
their arduous work in this cause. Miss Hall has held the office 
of Treasurer for four years, and deserves our best acknowledgments 
for her labour ; coupled with her I must mention Mrs. Phillips, who 
is retiring from her work of superintending the literature of the 
Society, which she has been attending to since its foundation. It is 
in great measure owing to the energy, vigour, and literary skill of this 
lady, that we owe the progress which has been made up till now, and 
I am sure we shall all agree that last year’s work has been eminently 
satisfactory to all those who have at heart a love for the country life 
of England.” 
