498 Anniversary Meeting of the B. 0. U. 



The animal volume of 'The Ibis' for 1900, forming the 

 sixth of the Seventh Series, had been issued in due course. 

 It contained 728 pages and 14 plates. 



The Report having been adopted, the accounts for the year, 

 which had been audited by Mr. Howard Saunders, were 

 presented by the Secretary, and approved by the Meeting. 



Dr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., was re-elected President, 

 and Mr. Howard Saunders (in the place of Mr. E. W. Gates, 

 who had retired) was elected Secretary, of the Union for the 

 ensuing year. Mr. E. W. Gates was elected a Member of the 

 Committee in the place of Dr. F. G. Penrose, who retired by 

 rotation. 



The following 13 Candidates were then balloted for and 

 declared to be duly elected Grdinary Members of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union : — James H. Allchin, 24 Bower Mount 

 Road, Maidstone ; Major Walter B, Arundel, High Ack- 

 worth, Pontefract ; Herbert Ashby, Pinehurst, Basset, near 

 Southampton; Lt -Col. A. C. Bailward, R.F.A., 1 Princes 

 Mansions, Victoria Street, S.W. ; John C. Baker, M.B., 

 B.A., The Mount, Witley, Surrey ; Horace W. Finlinson, 

 Goldington Avenue, Bedford; Herbert Goodchild, 119 

 Gloucester Road, Regent's Park, N.W. ; Alwin C. Haagner, 

 South African Constabulary, Modderfontein, S.A. ; Colling- 

 wood Ingram, The Bungalow, Westgate-on-Sea; William 

 K. Martin, B.A., Dartington, Totnes, South Devon; P. 

 Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., 32 Devonshire Place, W. ; John 

 T. Proud, Dellwood, Bishop Auckland; David Seth Smith, 

 Alleyne, Caterham, Surrey. 



Mr. Arthur M. Laws, of Buluwayo, South Africa, was 

 re-elected an Grdinary Member of the Union. 



After a vote of thanks to the Council of the Zoological 

 Society of London for the use of the Rooms, the Meeting 

 adjourned. 



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

 was attended by 29 Members, five of them being Griginal 

 Members of the Union, viz. F. DuCane Godman, W. H. 

 Hudleston, Alfred Newton, P. L. Sclater, and E. Cavendish 

 Taylor. 



