PROCEEDINOS OF SOCIETIES. 9j 



The hardy birds will be gratuitously exhibited in the Parks ; those for which 

 buildings" are required will be seen by the public on payment of a small ad- 

 mission fee. 



The Duplicates. — Birds and eggs will be distributed among the Members. 



The Museum. — The specimens will be accurately named according to the na- 

 tural system ; and so arranged as to convey to the student, through the eye 

 alone, a general and accurate knowledge of the affinities and analogies of birds, 

 and to exhibit examples of the different organizations which are known to ac- 

 company ^different habits and modes of life. The museum will include stuffed 

 birds, bird-skins, skeletons, and parts of birds, nests, and eggs, and will be open, 

 without restriction, to scientific persons and artists. 



Library. — The library will contain, ultimately, every ornithological work of 

 merit ; British and foreign ornithological periodicals will be taken in, and circu- 

 lated among such of the members as subscribe an additional half-guinea for this 

 advantage. 



Periodical Meetings or Conversaziones will be held for the exhibition of living 

 and dead specimens, drawings, books, nests, &c. — for reading ornithological pa- 

 pers, and for oral observations. 



Lectures. — Competent ornithologists will be invited to deliver lectures; 



Publications. — The Society will publish, or patronize the publication of, a ge- 

 neral^ornithological work at an accessible price : the proceedings will be published 

 concisely and cheaply ; and the Society will collect and publish all the informa- 

 tion they can obtain as to the best modes of rearing foreign birds adapted for the 

 park, the preserve, the poultry-yard, and the aviary. 



Prizes. — A prize of the value of £15 or £20 will be given annually for the 

 best paper on Systematic Ornithology, in elucidation of the power, wisdom, and 

 goodness of God. Another, of the value of £l 0, for the breeding of foreign birds : 

 and a third, of the value of £5, for the best method of keeping alive in this coun- • 

 try such foreign birds as will not breed. 



Application will be made to Government for a locality for the Society's mu- 

 seum, library, and housed collections : if the application be successful, the mu- 

 seum will be freely open to the public three days a week. 



The ordinary funds, arising from subscriptions and entrance fees, will in the 

 first instance be applied solely to the construction of aviaries, and the purchase, 

 rearing, and breeding of birds : and an extraordinary fund will be raised by the 

 creation of 100 shares of £25 each (to be paid, if desired, in two half-yearly 

 instalments) which will be applied exclusively to the purchase of books, speci- 

 mens, and cabinets, to lay a broad and solid foundation for a worthy museum 

 and library. The property thus acquired will be vested in the shareholders ; 



