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Ibis ' should be commenced under the Editorship of Alfred 

 Newton. Newton (as already arranged beforehand) accepted 

 the proposed Editorship and vacated the office of Secretary, 

 to which Salvin Avas elected. It was also agreed that an 

 annual subscription of thirty shillings should be paid by 

 every Member of the B. O. U. in aid of the new Series. 



Another very important alteration in our Rules (which 

 had^ however, been previously well discussed amongst us) 

 Avas finally agreed upon at this Meeting, namely that the 

 restrictioa of the number of Members of the Union to 

 twenty should no longer be maintained, and that any number 

 of additional Members might be elected by ballot, provided 

 that their names had been inserted in the notice convening 

 the Meeting. The result, under this Rule, has been that the 

 numbei" of Ordinary Members, formerly only 20, has now 

 gradually risen to 435 ! 



A second General Meeting of the Union was held in 18G1 

 on the 9th of November, at 11 Hanover Square, London, 

 Canon Tristram in the Chair, at which, in accordance with 

 the new Rule passed at the previous Meeting, nine new 

 Ordinary Members of the B. O. U. were proposed and elected. 

 It was also agreed that Honorary Members of the Union 

 Avho came to reside permanently in the United Kingdom 

 might be elected Extra-Ordinary Members and that no sub- 

 scription should be demanded of them. In accordance 

 with this resolution, Edward Blyth, an Honorary Member 

 of the Union Avho had come to reside in this country, was 

 elected an Extra-Ordinary Member of the B. O. U. The 

 vacancy thus caused in the list of Honorary Members 

 was filled by the election of Surgeon-Major T. C. Jerdon, 

 of the Indian Army, the author of Jerdon^s ' Birds of 

 India.' 



The fourth number of ' The Ibis ' for 1864 was issued in 

 August of that year, and the First Series of our Journal was 

 thus completed. The volume for 1864 contained 440 pages 

 and 10 plates. In it will be found Prof. Newton's article 

 on the " Irruption of Pallas's Sand-grouse in 1863.'' In the 

 Preface to the volume the Editor expressed his sincere regret 



