410 Letters, Extracts, Notices, &^c. 



Henry Eliot Howard, Stone House, Kidderminster. 

 William Edward Kingsford, Ashdene, East Molesey, 



Surrey. 

 Robert Nesliam, Utrecht House, Queeu^s Road, Clapham 



Park, S.W. 

 H. Noble, Temple Combe, Henley-on-Tliames. 

 Charles Boughey Rickett, Hongkong and Shanghai 



Bank, Foochow. 

 Henry Marriage Wallis, 6 Southern Hill, Reading. 

 Lieut.-Col. John William Yerbury, R.A., F.Z.S., Army 

 and Navy Club, S.W. 

 The outgoing President and Secretary were re-elected, 

 and Mr. J. E. Harting was elected into the Committee in 

 the place of Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., who retired 

 by rotation. 



The question of a General Index for the fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth series of ' The Ibis ' having been again discussed, and 

 the Committee having pointed out their difficulties in the 

 matter, it was agreed " That the Committee be authorized to 

 proceed with the Index at once." 



After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the Meeting- 

 adjourned, 



The Annual Dinner, subsequently held at Limmer's Hotel, 

 was attended by 29 Members and guests. 



Obituary. — Mr. A. G. More and Mr. G. N. Lawrence. 



Alexander Goodman More — whose lamented decease we 

 recorded in our last issue — was born in London on Septem- 

 ber 5th, 1830, but by descent was an Aberdonian. In early 

 life he resided at Renens, near Lausanne, and in other parts 

 of the Canton Vaud. Five years were spent at Rugby ; and 

 from 1850 to 1853 he was at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 where, in addition to the usual course of studies, he continued 

 the work already commenced in botany, entomology, con- 

 chology, in fact, in almost every branch of Natural History, 

 for those were not the days of specialists. This catholicity 

 of taste was Morels distinguishing feature in after-life and 



