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that the heavy pressure ol: other duties had compelled hioi 

 to resign his office. Such regret, however, had been muck 

 lessened by the consent of his friend Alfred Newton, who, 

 as the readers of ' The Ibis ' must be aware, was specially 

 qualified lor the post, to be his successor in the Editorship. 



III. — The SEco-vn Series of 'The Ibis' (1865-70). 



" Ibiclis iuterea tu quoqiie nomen liabe ! "' 

 (Editor : Alfred Newton.) 



1865. 



After the last General Meeting in November 1864, 

 Newton set to work at once on his new duties of 

 editorship, and, as was to be expected, brought out his 

 four numbers with unfailing regularity. To this volume 

 Canon Tristi^am furnished an important paper on the 

 Ornithology of Palestine^a subject that he was specially 

 engaged upon all his working life, and which was finally 

 expanded into his standard work on the ^ Fauna and Flora 

 of Palestine,^ published in 1884. The Editor himself gave 

 us his notes on the Birds of Spitsbergen, and Lord Lilford 

 contributed an elegant essay on the Ornithology of Spain. 

 Joseph Wolf, who was much under Newton's influence, was 

 persuaded to contribute some excellent illustrations to this 

 volume (see liis figures of the Tawny Eagle and of Krilper's 

 Nuthatch). The volume, when completed, contained 566 

 pages and 11 plates. 



The Annual General Meeting of the Union for 1865 was 

 held at 11 Hanover Square, London, on the 17th of May, 

 Viscount Walden (who liad been elected a Member of the 

 Union at the previous Meeting) being in the Chair. Five 

 new Members of the Union were elected, amongst whom 

 was Mr. Henry Eeles Dresser, afterwards the author of ' The 

 Birds of Europe.' A call of £4 was made upon the Ordinary 

 Members to pay oft' the debt on the First Series of ' The 

 Ibis,' and the balance was ordered to be carried to the 

 credit of the Second Series. 



