24 A SHORT HISTOKY OF THE 



1860. 



In 18G0 the Annual General Meeting of the Union was 

 held at Lincoln College, Oxford, on the 29th of June, with 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney in the Chair. The accounts for 1859 

 were submitted to the meeting and shewed a small balance in 

 favour of the Union, while it was announced that the first 

 volume of ' The Ibis ' was nearly out of print. Mr. R. F. Tomes 

 was elected a Member of the Union to fill up the vacancy caused 

 b}^ the decease of Wolley, which had taken place on November 

 the 20tli, 1859. It was resolved that ten Honorary Members 

 of the Union should be elected by ballot from Ornithologists 

 not residing in the United Kingdom. Dr. G. Hartlaub, of 

 Bremen (an old and miich-valued friend), Avho had contril^uted 

 an article to the first volume of ' The Ibis ■" and was at that 

 time at Oxford on a visit, was elected the First Honorary 

 Member, and the following nine other Ornithologists were 

 chosen to fill the list : — 



Professor S. F. Baird, Washiiigtou. 

 Dr. E. Baldamus, Osternienburg. 

 Mr. E. Blyth, Calcutta. 

 Dr. .J. Cahanis, Berlin. 

 Mr. J. Cassix, Philadelpliia. 

 Mr. E. L. LAY.A.RD, Capetown. 

 Professor J. Peinhardt, Copenhagen. 

 IMons. Jules Verreaux, Paris. 

 Mr. A. IX. Wallace, East Indies. 



The second volume of 'The Ibis^ (for 18G0) Avas com- 

 pleted by the issue of Part IV. in October. It contained 

 442 pages, illustrated by 15 plates. Amongst the latter 

 is a good figure by Wolf of the Three-toed Sand-grouse 

 {Syrrhaptes paradoxiis) . 



1861. 



In 1861 the Annual General Meeting of the Union was held 

 at the Zoological Society's Office, 11 Hanover Square, London, 

 on December 11th, the President, Col. Drummond-IIay, 

 being in the Chair. I had by that time discovered that the 



