SPECIAL JUBILEE MEETIXG. 9 



Mr. GoDMAN : Mr. Upcher and Brother Members of tlie 

 B. O. U., — I can hardly find words in which to thank you 

 for the high honour tliat you have conferred upon me by 

 presenting me with tliis Gokl Medal. I assure you that I 

 greatly appreciate both the gift itself and the kind feeling 

 which has prompted it. I am afraid I have done but little 

 to deserve it. (" No, uo.^^) It was my good fortune when 

 at the University to meet with several kindred spirits deeply 

 interested in the pursuit of Natural History, and it was more 

 due to them than to myself that the British Ornithologists' 

 Union was founded. For some years I was Secretary to the 

 Union, but that was when the Members were few and the 

 Avork was consequently light. I should perhaps have done 

 more in Ornithology had not Salvin and I determined to 

 publish the ' Biologia Centrali-Americana.' Together we 

 personally undertook the Aves and the Rhopalocera, but 

 later we found that it Avould be more advantageous that each 

 should be mainly responsible for one subject ; thus Salvin 

 continued the Birds and I the Butterflies. At his death, 

 however, I resumed my ornithological labours, and Avith 

 Dr. Sharpe's assistance brought the latter part of Salvin's 

 work to an end, and then concluded my own portion of the 

 Butterflies ; and I have now good reason to hope that the 

 Avhole of the ' Biologia ' Avill be completed before very long. 

 This is perhaps some excuse for my not having done more 

 in Ornithology. With these few remarks, I Avill onlv thank 

 you again most heartily for presenting me Avith this Medal. 

 (Applause.) 



Mr. Upcher : I have great pleasure in presenting the 

 next Medal to Dr. Sclater, our Editor. 



(The Medal was then presented.) 



Dr. Sclater : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, — The 

 obvious thing for me to say is that this is the proudest 

 moment of my life, and I say so in all fulness of heart. 

 When I go into my library and see the fifty volumes, Avhich 

 are described in the List before us, standing nicely bound iu 



