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Oommittee announced the continued prosperity of tlie Union, 

 and stated that after payment of all expenses for 1907 a 

 sum of .€198 had been carried forward for the benefit of 

 the present year. In consequence of the lamented death of 

 Professor Newton, the Committee proposed that the Jubilee 

 Meeting should take place in London, instead of Cambridge, 

 about the second week in December. This was agreed to, 

 and Messrs. Bidwell, Dresser, Meade-Waldo, Walter Roth- 

 schild, D. Seth-Smith, and Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe were 

 requested to form a joint Committee along with the ordinary 

 members of Committee to make the necessary arrangements 

 for the Jubilee Meeting. 



The vacancy in the Secretaryship caused by the lamented 

 death of Mr. Howard Saunders was filled by the election of 

 ]\lr. J. Lewis Bonhote to that office. 



Twenty-five candidates were ballotted for and elected 

 Ordinary Members of the Union. Mr. J. H. J. Farquhar, 

 of Southern Nigeria, and Mr. Robert Hall, of Tasmania, were 

 elected Colonial Members, and Mr. C. W. Richmond, of 

 Washington, D.C., was elected a Foreign Member of the 

 Union. It was resolved that the President and Secretary, 

 on behalf of the Union, should sign a Petition to the House 

 of Lords in favour of the " Bill to prohibit the importation 

 of the Plumage and Skins of Wild Birds." 



The usual Dinner after the Meeting took place at Pagani's 

 Restaurant, and was attended by 52 Members and guests. 



The volume of ' The Ibis' for 1908, being the second of 

 the Ninth Series and the fiftieth of the whole work, con- 

 tained 660 pages. It was concluded in October 1908, by the 

 issue of the two-hundredth number. The volume is illus- 

 trated by 13 plates and maps (drawn by Keulemans, 

 Gronvold, and other artists), amongst which is a figure, the 

 -work of Major Jones, of both sexes of the newly discovered 

 Mikado Pheasant of Formosa [Calophasis mikado). In it 

 will also be found an important paper by Mr. C. F. M. 

 Swynnerton, containing further notes on the Birds of Gaza- 

 land, and Mr. H. E. Dresser's account of the Russian Arctic 

 Expedition of 1900-1903. 



