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Williiam Forster) and three Foreign Members (Dr. W. C. H. 

 Peters^ Professor Reinhardt, and Dr. H. Schlegel), making 

 the present list consist of 123 Ordinary, 1 Extraordinary, 

 9 Honorary, and 16 Foreign Members — together 149 Mem- 

 bers. The Candidates for admission to the Union at this 

 Meeting are sixteen, which is the largest number proposed 

 at any Anniversary since the foundation of the Union, and 

 gives evidence of the increasing popularity of the B. O. U. 



The Accounts for the volume of ^The Ibis^ for 1883, as 

 also for the ' Ibis List of British Birds,^ having been discussed 

 and passed, the following new members were balloted for 

 and duly elected : — Geoffrey Fowell Buxton, Sunny Hill, 

 Thorpe, Norwich ; Joseph Whitaker., Rainworth Lodge, 

 Mansfield ; Major E. A. Butler, Belfast ; C. J. Holdsworth, 

 Wilmslow, Cheshire ; Capt. C. T. Bingham, Moulmein, 

 Burmah ; Lieut, Henry Barnes, Commissariat Department, 

 India ; William Huxton Davison, Ootacamund, South India ; 

 J. G. Goodchild, 28 Jermyn Street, S.W. ; Henry Ogg Forbes, 

 Rubislaw Den, Aberdeen; Herbert Laugton, 115 Queen^s 

 Road, Brighton ; R. L. Patterson, Croft House, Holy wood, 

 CO. Down ', H. Hey wood Jones, Larkhill, West Derby, 

 Liverpool ; Frank E. Beddard, Zoological Society^s Gardens, 

 N.W. ; Abel Chapman, Silksworth House, Sunderland; A. S. 

 Vesey, 3 Campden Villas, Barnes ; and W. C. Tait, Oporto. 



The following officers were elected for the year 1884-5 : — 

 President, The Right Hon. Lord Lilford; Secretary, H. E. 

 Dresser, Esq. ; Editors, P. L. Sclater, Esq., and Howard 

 Saunders, Esq. Mr. F. DuCane Godman was elected on the 

 Committee in place of Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, who retired by 

 rotation. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was proposed by 

 Mr. G. C. Taylor, seconded by Mr. W. H. Hudleston, and 

 carried unanimously. Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited 

 and made a few remarks on the peculiar new European Nut- 

 hatch {Sittd whiteheadi) lately discovered by Mr. Whitehead 

 in the mountains of Corsica. The Meeting then adjourned, 

 and the Annual Dii;iner was, as usual, held, and was attended 

 by about thirty Members and guests. 



