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1896. 



In the year 1896, tlie Annual Genei'al INFeeting of the 

 B. O. U . was hekl on the 22nd of April, at 3 Hanover Square, 

 where, in the absence of the President, the Chair was taken 

 by P. L. Sclater. The Report of the Committee, which 

 announced the continued prosperity of the Union, and 

 the statement of accounts for 1895, which had been 

 examined and found correct by Mr. Harting-, Avere received 

 and adopted. Twenty-nine new Ordinary Members were 

 ballotted for and elected, and Herluf Winge, of Copenhagen, 

 was elected a Foreign Member. It Avas agreed that if the 

 Committee should so determine, a second General JNIeeting 

 of the B. O. U. might be held some time in October or 

 November in any year. The Dinner after the Meeting, held 

 at Limmer's Hotel, was attended by twenty-eight jNIembers 

 and guests. 



The volume of "^The Ibis' for 1896 (edited by Sclater and 

 Saunders), being the second volume of the Seventh Series, 

 contained 623 pages, illusti'ated by 12 plates, chiefly drawn 

 by Keulemans. An important paper by Colonel Yerbury 

 gave further notes on the Birds of Aden, and a 

 remarkable new Blackbird, discovered by Mr. E. Lort 

 Phillips in Somaliland, was figured as Merula ludovicke. 



1897. 



The Annual General Meeting of the B. O. U. in 1897 

 took place at the Zoological Society's Office, 3 Hanover 

 Sqnare, on the 5th of May, P. L. Sclater in the Chair. 

 The Report of the Committee announced the continued 

 prosperity of the Union, which on that day had 283 Members. 

 The General Index of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series of 

 ^The Ibis^ (1877-1894), edited by Osbert Salvin and 

 prepared under his superintendence, had been completed and 

 would shortly be ready for distribution. The Report was 

 adopted and the accounts, Avhich had been examined by 

 Mr. Harting and found correct, Avere passed. Twenty-four 

 ncAV Ordinary Members were ballotted for and elected. 



