534 Annual General Meeting of the B. 0. U. 



acd W. B. Tegetmeier; and the names of C. B. Cory and 

 J. C. Hartland had been removed from the List of Members 

 under Rule 6. 



At the date of the Meeting the Union consisted of 422 

 Ordinary M embers, 2 Extra-Ordinary, 10 Honorary, 8 Colonial, 

 and 1 9 Foreign Members. 



The Committee further reported that a Special ]\Ieeting 

 in commemoration of the Ju])ilee of the Founding of the 

 Union had been held on December 9th, 1908. Gold Medals, 

 struck to commemorate the occasion, had been presented to 

 four surviving Original Members, Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, Percy S. Godman, Esq., and Wilfrid H. 

 Hudleston, Esq. It was proposed that similar Medals should 

 be occasionally given in recognition of any special work in 

 ornithology. One of the Medals had also been presented to 

 the National Collection of Medals in the British Museum. 

 The Jubilee Supplement to 'The Ibis^ for 1908, issued in 

 March last, had completed the Jubilee Commemoration. 



It had also been decided at the Jubilee Meeting that an 

 ornithological expedition, which was shortly going out to 

 explore Central New Guinea, should be undertaken under 

 the auspices of the Union. 



The Statement of Accounts for the year ending December 

 31st, 1908, was then submitted and approved, and a 

 vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Edward Bidwell, the 

 Auditor. 



Dr. F. G. Penrose and Mr. Edward Bidwell having been 

 appointed Scrutineers to superintend the ballot, the Meeting 

 proceeded to elect the Officers for the ensuing year, and on 

 the conclusion of the ballot it was announced that Dr. F. 

 DuCane Godman, F.K.S., had been re-elected President, and 

 Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A., F.L.S., Secretary; also that 

 ]\lr. D. Seth-Smith had been elected a Member of the 

 Committee in the place of Mr. Frederick Gillett, who had 

 retire by rotation. 



The following 17 gentlemen were then balloted for and 

 elected Ordinary Members of the Union : — Thomas H. Briggs, 

 M.A., F.E.S., Kock House, Lynmouth, N. Devon ; David C. 



