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and News, has been regularly issued, and appears to grow in 
favour with those interested in the progress of the work. 
Extended information will he found in it with regard to most 
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of the matters dealt with in this Report. Specimens of publica¬ 
tions, posters, nesting-boxes, and lantern slides have been on 
view, and leaflets distributed, at the Bradford Exhibition, the 
Bath and West of England Show at Swansea, the Scientific 
Congress at Maidstone, and the Church Congress at Liverpool. 
Through the kindness of Mr. MacWhirter, R.A., the Society Christmas 
was permitted to reproduce two of his charming pictures, “ A Card * 
Winter Song ” and “ The Blackbird’s Song,” on its greeting- 
card this Christmas. The card met with a large sale, and the 
Society’s postcards are still in demand; one of the postcard 
designs has been adopted, by permission, by the Ligue Feminine 
Romande of Switzerland. 
The Society’s lantern slides have been borrowed during 1904 Lantern 
for the illustration of 109 lectures. It has been found necessary 1 e ' 
to make a charge for the use of the slides; this has been fixed 
as low as possible considering the cost of maintenance and the 
labour involved in the care and issue of the slides. It is hoped 
that those who organize lectures will remember that the object 
of the Society in forming its large and expensive collection of 
slides for loan to lecturers is the advancement of the work ; 
lectures may be made not only a means of interesting and 
instructing audiences, but a fairly easy means of obtaining 
funds for the Society over and above the fee now asked for the 
loan of the slides. A valuable gift has been received through semiett 
Mr. Dutcher, Chairman of the Association of Audubon Societies Collection, 
of the United States, of the Sennett Collection of slides, 
numbering over 200. The collection was formed by Mr. Sennett 
and presented to this Society by his widow, who unhappily died 
before the thanks of the Council could reach her. The total 
number of slides available is now over 900. 
The death-roll for 1904 lias deprived the Society of four Obituary, 
powerful supporters : Elizabeth, Duchess of Wellington, one of 
the first of its Vice-Presidents; Miss Frances Power Cobbe ; 
Mr. G-. F. Watts, R.A., whose noble sermons on canvas include 
“ The Wounded Heron ” and “ The Shuddering Angel ” ; and 
Sir Henry M. Stanley. 
Among the receipts for the year mention should be made of 
£12 resulting from dramatic performances kindly arranged by 
Mrs. St. Hill at the Albert Hall Theatre in aid of animal- 
protection societies; £20 as the result of a lecture on the Life 
and Work of Gr. F. Watts, given at Redhill by the Rev. Walter 
