34 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE 



Viscount Walden was in the Chair. The accounts were 

 passed, and ten new Members were elected. Amongst the 

 Ordinary Members who joined us on that day we find the 

 names o£ Blanford, Harvie-Browii, Col. Feilden, Garrod, 

 and Seebohm. Robert Collett, of Christiania, was elected a 

 Foreign Member. 



The volume of 'The Ibis ' for 1873 contained 514 pages, 

 illustrated by 15 plates, mostly the work of Keulemans. 

 Salvin being absent in Guatemala during most of the year, 

 Sclater, who had undertaken to do his work, wrote and 

 signed for him the Preface. Amongst other good papers in 

 this volume, attention may be called to Lord Walden's 

 account of the collection of birds made in the Andaman 

 Islands by his nephew, Lt.-Col. R. Wardlaw-Ramsay, who, 

 during a two mouths' visit to Port Blair, had obtained 

 460 specimens rejn-esenting 62 species. 



1874. 



In 1874 the Annual General Meeting of the Union was 

 held at 6 Tenterden Street, on the 27th of May, the 

 President, Viscount Walden, in the Chair. Eleven new 

 Members were elected, amongst whom were Col. Godwin- 

 Austen and C. B. Wharton. 



Salvin having returned home, a second General Meeting 

 of the Union was held in Tenterden Street, on the 17th of 

 June of the same year, Viscount Walden in the Chair, when 

 the accounts of 1873 (audited by Mr. Dresser) were passed. 

 It was agreed that authors of papers in ' The Ibis ' should 

 be entitled to have twenty-five separate copies of their 

 papers gratis, if demanded. It was also agreed that the 

 Editor should be requested to consider the expediency of 

 altering the mode of reviewing ornithological literature then 

 used in ' The Ibis.^ 



The volume of ' The Ibis ^ for 1874 (being the fourth 

 volume of the Third Series) contained 486 pages, illustrated 

 by 14 plates, mostly drawn by Keulemans. Amongst the 

 articles in this volume will be found a paper by Lord Walden 



