BRITISH OKXITHOLOGISTS' UXIOX. 37 



was ill the Chair. After some discussion the following- 

 resolutions were agreed to : — 



No person shall be ballotted for whose name shall not 

 have been proposed tjn a form provided by the Secretary 

 and signed by the Proposer on his personal knowledge 

 and by two other ]\Iembers. 



The List of Candidates with their proposers and 

 seconders shall be circulated amongst the Members 

 along with the summonses for the General Meeting. 



The volume of 'The Ibis' for 1877 (being the first volume 

 of the Fourth Series) contained 512 pages, illustrated by 

 14 plates drawn by Kenlemans and Smit. Mr. C. G. Danford 

 contributed an important paper to this volume on the Birds 

 of Asia Minor, and Col. Feilden gave us an interesting- 

 account of the Birds observed in Smith Sound and the Polar 

 Basin during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. 



1878. 



Ill 1878 the Annual General Meeting of the B, O. U. Avas 

 held at 6 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, on the 15tli of 

 May, P. L. Sclater in the Chair, when the accounts, having 

 been examined and found correct by Mr. Seebohm, were 

 passed. They shewed a balance in hand of £36. Nine 

 new Members were elected, amongst whom was Mr. Henry 

 T. Wharton, one of the principal compilers of the B. O. U. 

 List of British liirds published in 1883. 



The Dinner after the Meeting was held at the Grosvenor 

 Restaurant, Bond Street. 



The desirability of preparing and publishing a General 

 Index of the first three Series of ' The Ibis ' was discussed, 

 and, in order to prevent any temporary embarrassment 

 of the Union's funds, it was agreed to raise a Guarantee 

 Fund among the Members to cover its cost, although it 

 was expected that the amount to be received ultimately 

 from the sale of the Index-volume would nearly suffice. 

 It was also agreed that every guarantor should be permitted 

 to take as many copies of the Index as he might require, up 



