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This was seconded by Mrs. Phillips who said that the suggestion 
made by Canon Rawnsley about the Society preparing lantern 
slides illustrative of bird life was under the consideration of a Sub- * 
Committee appointed to carry out the scheme. She also wished to 
say that the honour accredited to her by the Chairman of being the 
“ mother ” of the Society really belonged to Mrs. W. D. Williamson 
ot Didsbury, Manchester, Mrs. Phillips being only one of its early 
nurses in its fledgeling state. The women who formed so large a 
portion of the working members of the Society earnestly desired to 
see birds effectively protected during the nesting season and prayed 
that some legislation would save whole neighbourhoods from being 
despoiled of their song birds by unlicensed and irresponsible individ¬ 
uals. It had been pleasing to read of the warm interest taken in the 
welfare of birds during the terrible frost. Jt seemed strange that it 
should be necessary to plead for them. Many more might have been 
saved if men and women appreciated their sweet presence aright, as 
a sure and read}'' means of “looking through nature up to nature’s 
God.” The leading aim of the Society was to promote the observa¬ 
tion and preservation of living beauty and to deprecate its destruction. 
Happy the children (for the children of to-day will be the men and 
women of to-morrow), who have early imbibed the feeling expressed 
by John Ruskin in 5th Rule of the Society of St. George. 
I will not hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any 
beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, 
and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.” 
These noble words express the working creed of the Society 
for the Protection of Birds. 
The resolution was carried amid cheers, and the Chairman 
briefly returned thanks, 
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