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1887. 



The Annual General Meeting of the B. O. U. for 1887 was 

 held in Captain Shelley's room at 6 Tenterden Street^ on May 

 the 4th. In the absence of the President, tlie Chair was taken 

 by P. L. Sclater. The accounts, examined by Mr. Bidwell, 

 havini;- been passed and the Report ot the Committee read 

 and adopted, ten new Members were ballotted for and elected. 

 The Secretary called the attention of the Members present to 

 a petition against the extension of Close Time for Sea-birds 

 in the North E/iding of Yorkshire. After a long discussion, 

 on the subject it was agreed that, in the opinion of the 

 Members of the B. 0. U. present, an extension of the 

 Close Time for Sea-birds on the east coast of England to the 

 1st of September would be highly desirable. The Annual 

 Dinner was held after the Meeting at the Cafe Royal, and 

 attended by thirty-two Members and guests. ^ 



The twenty-ninth volume of ' The Ibis,' being the fifth, 

 volume of the Fifth Series, contained 493 pages, illustrated 

 by 14 plates, mostly executed by Keulemans. Amongst the 

 papers of great interest is a memoir by Dr. R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe on the Birds collected by Mr. John Whitehead on 

 Mount Kiua Balu in Northern Borneo. Thirty-four species- 

 are described as belonging to the collection, amongst which 

 is a remarkable new form ot Dicruridie, proposed to be 

 called Chlamydochcera jef/eryi. 



1888. 



The Annual General Meeting of the B. O. U. for 1888 was 

 held in the rooms of the Zoological Society, 3 Hanover 

 Square, on May the Kith. In the absence of the President 

 through illness, the Chair was taken by Mr. W. T. Blanford. 

 The Committee presented their report, which gave an 

 explanation of the prosperous state of the finances. As 

 the Fifth Series of ' The Ibis ' would be completed by the 

 issue of the volume for the current year, the question of the 

 Editorship had been taken into consideration. The Com- 

 mittee regretted to say that Mr. Howard Saunders Avas 



