52 A SHORT HISTORY Ol' THK 



VIII.— The Seventh Series of ^The Iris' (1895-1900). 



"Non moriar, sed vivain, et narrabo opera Domini." 



{Editors: Philip Lutley Sclater and Howard Saunders.) 



1895. 



The Aimual General Meeting of the B.O.U. in 1895 was 

 held at 3 Hanover Square, London, on May the 8th, the 

 Chair being occupied, in the absence of the President, by 

 P. L. Sclater. The Committee gave a goad report of the 

 state of the finances for 189'1, shewing a balance of .£''84 in 

 favour of the Union after payment of all expenses. The 

 question of the preparation of an Index for the last three Series 

 of ' The Ibis,' and also of a Subject-Index for the Avhole of the 

 published Series, Avas stated to be still under the consideration 

 of the Committee. The Report of the Committee was adopted 

 and the accounts of 1894, having been examined by Mr. J.E. 

 Harting and found correct, were passed. It was then agreed 

 that the Committee be authorized to proceed with the 

 proposed Indices at once. Nineteen candidates for the 

 Ordinar}^ Membership Avere ballotted for and declared to 

 be duly elected, amongst whom was H.R.H. Ferdinand, 

 Prince of Bulgaria. The usual Dinner, after the Meeting, 

 Avas held at Limnier's Hotel and was attended by tAVenty-nine 

 Members and guests. 



HaA'ing secured such an excellent partner as Howard 

 Saunders, I commenced the Editorship of the Seventh Series 

 of ' The Ibis ' Avith a light heart, and selected as its motto 

 Avhat I consider a very appropriate quotation from the 

 Vulgate : '^ Non moriar, sed vivam, et narrabo opera 

 Domini." 



The volume of 'The Ibis' for 1895, being the first of the 

 Seventh Series, contained 529 pages, illustrated by 14 

 plates, draAvn mostly by Keulemans. Two valuable papers 

 by Mr. Pycraft on the Pterylography of the Tinamous and 

 the Hoatzin Avill be found in this volume, as also an excellent 

 figure of both sexes of the peculiar Bullfinch {PyrrJmla 

 leucogenis) discovered in the Philippines by Whitehead. 



