BKITISH OKXITHOLOGISTS' UXIOX. ^9 



On commencing tlie Second Series of 'The Ibis/ the 

 publication was transferred from N. Triibner & Co. to 

 Van Voorstj the well-known Natural-History Bookseller 

 of Paternoster Row, w^ho continued to act as publisher of 

 our Journal until his death in 1886. 



1866. 



In 1866 the Annual General Meeting Avas held at 

 11 Hanover Square, London, Lord Lilford in the Chair. 

 Three new ]\I embers were elected, and the accounts for the 

 past year, which shewed a deficit of .€108, were considered. 

 It was agreed that a subscription of .€3 10^. should be called 

 for to meet the deficiency, and that the letterpi^ess of the 

 future volumes of the Journal should be slightly reduced 

 in amount in order to lessen the expense. 



In accordance with the resolution passed at the General 

 Meeting, the number of pages in ' The Ibis ' for 1866 was 

 reduced to 440. There were several communications of 

 first-rate interest in the volume, amongst which were 

 Godman's notes on the Birds of the Azores and Pro- 

 fessor Ovven^s description of the remains of a large new 

 extinct Parrot from the Mauritius. Blyth commenced in it 

 a valuable commentary on Jerdon^s ' Birds of India,^ and 

 Lord Lilford wrote a series of notes on Spanish Ornithology. 

 All the beautiful plates of Birds in this volume were drawn 

 by Joseph Wolf. 



1867. 



On the 27th of March, 1867, the Members of the Union 

 again assembled for their Annual General Meeting at 

 11 Hanover Square, London, with Lord Lilford in the 

 Chair. A letter from Col. H. M. Drummond-Hay stated 

 that, owing to the distance at which he lived and his 

 consequent inability to attend the Meetings regularly, he 

 Avished to resign the office of President. The resignation 

 was accepted with much regret, and Lord Lilford was duly 



