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forward to 1907 Mas £91. Twenty-two candidates for the 

 Ordinary Membership were hallotted for and elected, and 

 the name of Dr. J. A. Allen was transferred from the 

 List of Foreign Members to that of Honorary Members, 

 while Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, of Gnngunyama, Melsetter, 

 South E/hodesia, was elected a Colonial Member of the 

 •Union. The Committee appointed at the last Annual 

 General Meeting to prepare a scheme to commemorate the 

 Jubilee of the B. O. U. in 1908 recommended that the pro- 

 posed Jubilee Meeting should be held at (Cambridge in tlie 

 beginning of November, 1908. This was approved of, and 

 it was agreed 



That it be an instruction to the (/oramittee to prepare 

 a short account of the foundation ol: the Union and of 

 the work of its early jM embers; and that this account 

 be illustrated by photographs of the Members included 

 in it, and be published in the fiftieth volume of ' The 

 Ibis.' 



The volume of ' The Ibis'' for 1907, being the first volume 

 of the Ninth Series and the forty-nintii of the whole work, 

 contained 685 pages, illustrated by 13 plates and maps. 

 Among the more important papers in this volume are 

 Mr. Swynnerton^s article on the Birds of Southern Rhodesia, 

 and that of IMessrs. Ogilvie-Grant and J. D. La Touche on 

 the Birds of the Island of Formosa, which is illustrated by 

 a beautiful plate of a new Gold-crest {Ker/ulns goodfelloivi) . 

 In this volume also is published the third article, by Mr. 

 W. Eagle Clarke, on the ornithological results of the Scottish 

 National Antarctic Expedition. It relates specially to the 

 Birds of the Weddell Sea, and finishes the series on this 

 subject. 



1908. 



The Annual General Meeting- of the Union for 1908 Avas 

 held at 3 Hanover Square on May the 20th, F. DuCane 

 Godman, President, in the Chair. The Beport of the 



