40 A SHOKT HISTORY OF THE 



]\Ieeting took place at the Grosveuor Restaiiraut, Bond 

 Street. 



The fourth volume of the Fourth Series of ' The Ibis,' 

 edited by Salvin and myself iu 1880, contained 49(5 pages, 

 illustrated by 15 plates, drawn by our usual artists Keulemans 

 and Smit. To this volume Captain Wardlaw-Rarasay contri- 

 buted some excellent ornithological notes from Afghanistan, 

 and Salvin described the last collection made by Henry 

 Durnford in the northern provinces of the Argentine 

 Republic. Durnford's researches were continued up to 

 within a few days of his lamented death, which took place 

 at Salta on the 11th of July, 1878. 



1881. 



In 1881 the Annual General Meeting of the Union was 

 held at 6 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, on May the 

 18th, Lord Lilford, President, in the Chair, when twelve new 

 Ordinary Members were elected. Two new Foreign Members, 

 Colonel N. Prjevalsky and Dr. A. B. Meyer, were also 

 elected. The accounts for 1880, sheAving a balance of €97 

 in favour of the Union, were explained by Mr. Salvin, and 

 passed. It was agreed that the List of British Birds prepared 

 by the Committee appointed in 1879 should be printed as a 

 separate volume at the expense of the B. O. U., and sold for 

 the benefit of the Union, 



The volume of *The Ibis' for 1881, edited by Salvin and 

 myself, was rather larger than those Avhich preceded it, con- 

 taining 627 pages, illustrated by 17 plates, mostly drawn by 

 Keulemans. It commenced with an excellent fesitme of the 

 papers on the Anatomy and Classification of Birds, written 

 by the late Professor Garrod, whose loss we had then lately 

 suffered. This was prepared by W. A. Forbes, avIio suc- 

 ceeded him in the Prosectorship of the Zoological Society, 

 and gives a full account of his predecessor's thirty-eight 

 papers on these subjects. 



Another important article in this volume was ]\Iajor J. 

 Biddulph's account of the Birds of Gilgit, a new locality as 



