Society for the Protection of Birds.—No. 15 J. 
PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
SOCIETY for the PROTECTION of BIRDS. 
1304 . 
The Annual Meeting of the Society was held at the Westminster 
Palace Hotel, London, on February 24th, 1904. 
The Right Hon. Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P., presided; 
and among those present, either on the platform or in the body of 
the hall, were Julia Marchioness of Tweeddale, Lady Evelyn 
Ewart, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Henniker, Canon Rawnslev, Mr. 
Sydney Buxton, M.P., Hr. Brewitt and the Hon. Mrs. Brewitt, 
Lady Pender, the Horn F. S. and Hon. Mrs. O’Grady, Sir George 
Kekewich, Sir Charles Lawson, Lady Stevenson, the Macleod of 
Macleod, Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, Mr. Montagu Sharpe 
(Chairman of Committee), Mr. W. H. Hudson, Mr. H. E. Bresser, 
Mr. Ernest Bell, Mr. Francis King, Mrs. Owen Visger, Miss C. V. 
Hall, Miss E. Smith, Miss Pollock, Rev. A. L. Hussey, Rev. Br. 
Finch, Mrs. Sturge (Clifton), Mrs. Luther Holden (Ipswich), Mrs. 
Stuart (Norwich), Mrs. Close, Mrs. Hubbard, Mr. Pycraft, Mr. 
R. B. Lodge, Mrs. F. Boyle Trist, Miss Clifton, Miss Lena Barron, 
Miss Ruston, Mr. Frank Finn, Mr. B. Haworth-Booth, Mr. W. P. B. 
Stebbing, Colonel Benson, Mrs. Willis Bund, and many others. 
The Chairman in moving the adoption of the Report said it 
was not necessary to explain the objects of the Society, because 
it was now well known to the whole country. It had had a 
successful and progressive existence with not merely a prosperous 
present and a useful past, but with, he hoped, a still more 
useful future before it. There were one or two misconceptions 
when the Society was first started. At one time it was thought to 
be a new league for introducing vegetarian diet. It was also 
confounded with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals. In a sense it was quite true that the object of this 
Society was to prevent wanton cruelty, such as took place, 
for instance, in the destruction of the egrets at their breeding 
places, which was ruthless cruelty, and a black offence against God 
