When the RSPB made feathers fly in the hat trade | Letters

Tessa Boase writes of the successful campaign against ‘murderous millinery’, while Malcolm Smith recalls the millions of birds slaughtered to provide for the feather-decorated hats obsession in the 19th-centuryYour feature on the ethics of wearing feathers (G2, 22 May) name-checks the American socialites behind the Audubon society of 1896, but makes no mention of the women who founded our own Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, with precisely the same goal, seven years earlier