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Columbia; J. A. Jeffries^ Massacliusetts ; Prof. F. H. King, 

 Wisconsin ; Dr. F. W. Langdon^ Ohio ; G. N. Lawrence and 

 N. T. Lawrence, New York; Dr. J. C. Merrill, U.S.A., 

 Montana; Dr. H. Nehrling, Missouri; E. W. Nelson, 

 Colorado; T. S. Roberts^ Minnesota; W. E. D. Scott, 

 Arizona; Hon. G. B. Sennett, Pennsylvania; and W. E. 

 SaunderSj Canada. The number of Active Members was 

 thereby raised to forty-seven. 



" The election for Officers resulted as follows : — President, 

 J. A. Allen; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Elliott Coues and Robert 

 Ridgway; Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. C. Hart Merriam; 

 Councillors^ Prof. S. F. Baird, G. N. Lawrence, William 

 Brewster^ H. W. Henshaw, and Montague Chamberlain. 



"■ The election of Foreign Members resulted in the choice 

 of the following twenty-one scientists of eminence in orni- 

 thology : — Prof. J. V. Barboza du Bocage, Lisbon ; Dr. Jean 

 Cabanis, Berlin; Mr. Henry E. Dresser, London; Dr. Otto 

 Finsch, Bremen; Dr. H. H, Giglioli, Florence; Dr. John 

 Gundlach^ Cuba; Mr. John Henry Gurney, Sen., Norwich, 

 England; Dr. Gustav Ilartlaub, Bremen; Mr. Allan O. 

 Hume, Calcutta; Prof. Thomas Henry Huxley, London; 

 Dr. Ferdinand Krauss, Stuttgart ; Prof. Alphonse Milne- 

 Edwards, Paris ; Prof. Alfred Newton, Cambridge, England ; 

 Prof. William Kitchen Parker, London ; August von Pelzeln, 

 Vienna; Count Tommaso Salvadori, Turin; Mr. Osbert 

 Salvin, London ; Dr. Hermann Schlegel, Leyden ; Dr. 

 Philip Lutley Sclater, London; Mr. R. B. Sharpe, London; 

 Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace, London. 



" The following twenty Corresponding Members were 

 elected, further elections in this class being deferred : — 

 Count Hans von Berlepsch, Hesse, Germany ; Capt. Thomas 

 Blaldston, Hakodadi, Japan ; Mr. Walter Bul]er, Wel- 

 lington, New Zealand; Mr. Robert Collett, Christiania, 

 Norway ; Mr. J. J. Dalgleisch, Edinburgh ; M. le Pere 

 Armand David, Paris ; Mr. Percy Evans Freke, Dundrum, 

 Ireland ; Mr. F. DuCane Godman, London ; M. Alfred 

 Grandidier, Paris; Mr. John Henry Gurney, Jun., Norwich, 

 England; Mr. J. Edmund Harting, London; Mr. J. A. 



