54 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE 



The office of President, being vacant by the mnch-lameuted 

 death of the late Lord Lilford, an original member of 

 the Union, who had held it for nineteen years, was filled 

 by the election of Mr. Frederick DuCane Godmau, and 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin was elected Secretary in place of INlr. 

 Godmau, who retired from that office. 



The volume of 'The Ibis' for 1897 (being the third 

 volume of the Seventh Series) contained 659 pages, illustrated 

 by 12 plates, mostly drawn by Keulemans. Amongst the 

 plates will be found figures of the male of a wonderful new 

 Nuthatch {Sit fa magna) discovered by Col. Wardlaw-Ramsay 

 in the Southern Shan States, and of a splendid new 

 Paradise-Bird [Macgregoria pulchra) from British New 

 Guinea. 



1898. 



In 1898 the Annual General Meeting of the B. O. U. was 

 held at the Zoological Society^s Office, 3 Hanover Square, 

 on May the 11th, Dr. F. D, Godman, President, in the 

 Chair. Thirty-two Members were present. The Committee 

 reported that the General Index of ' The Ibis ' for the years 

 1877-1894 (that is, for the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series), 

 forming a volume of 471 pages^ had been issued. The 

 accounts for the year 1897 were examined and passed. 

 Twenty-seven new Ordinary Members were ballotted for and 

 elected, and Dr. E. A. Goeldi,of Para, was elected an Honorary 

 Member. 



The volume of 'The Ibis ' for 1898, edited by Sclater and 

 Saunders (being the fourth volume of the Seventh Series), 

 contained 656 pages, illustrated by 13 plates, mostly drawn 

 by Keulemans. Amongst the papers will be found Mr. Boyd 

 Alexander's account of his Ornithological Expedition to the 

 Cape Verde Islands, and Mr. H. L. Popham's notes on the 

 Birds observed during his second expedition to the Yenesei 

 Eiver in Siberia. 



