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far better if the papers appeared in future numbers of ' The 

 Ibis ' in the regular way. I do not think that Mr. Grant 

 made any very special point that the papers were to be 

 published in a separate Jubilee number. 



The President : We can put the motion in two parts, 

 first that you agree to this proposition of Mr. Grant^s, and 

 then as to the mode of publication, or perhaps it would be 

 as well to leave the matter of publication out at present. 

 There is no hurry about it. In all probability it will be 

 three years hence at least before the money is required, and 

 by that time we may have met the expenditure that we have 

 incurred to-day. I will put the motion as I read it. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild : My only objection to 

 starting a Jubilee volume is this. The Expedition (if I am 

 right in hoping that the resolution will be carried unani- 

 mously) will be started on the basis of Ornithology, but it 

 will include the acquisition of a large number of specimens 

 of other groups of animals. Now I do not think that under 

 our present rules we can publish anything except ornitho- 

 logical papers^ and therefore the account of the Expedition 

 in a special Jubilee volume must be either incomplete, only 

 giving the ornithological results, or, it may be, only an 

 account of the exploration and not the actual account 

 of the collections. Neither of these alternatives would, I 

 think, be at all conducive to the proper estimation of the 

 work of the Expedition by the public. And I therefore 

 think that, without any wish to run counter to Mr. Grant's 

 ideas, it would be much better that the question of publishing 

 the results of the Expedition should be put aside until the 

 Expedition has returned. 



Dr. Hartert : I think Mr. Grant's plan of this Expe- 

 dition must have the heartiest support of all members of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, because the Charles Louis 

 Mountains are undoubtedly one of the most interesting 

 places, if not the most interesting place, in the world to be 



