Genre:

Regular Feature, Proceedings, Drollery

Subjects:

Government, Politics, Ornithology, Hunting, Cruelty, Crime

    Notes that the House of Lords sent the 'Sea-Birds Bill through Committee, but took out a clause making the possession of eggs penal, as collectors and museums might be informed against'. Suggests that 'our friend' George L P B Du Maurier's 'egg-swallowing Frog' (see PU1/56/14/6) has an 'interest in this question'. (197)