536 Annual General Meeting of the B. O. U. 



The Meeting then proceeded to elect the Officers for the 

 ensuing year, and it was announced that Dr. F. DuCane 

 Godman, F.R.S., had been re-elected President, and Mr. J. 

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

 Edward Bidwell had been elected a Member of the Com- 

 mittee in the place of Mr. Ernest Gibson, who had retired 

 by rotation. 



The following thirteen gentlemen were then balloted for 

 and elected Ordinary xMembers of the Union : — Lt.-Col. 

 Hubert F. Barclay, Dursley, St. Albans; Harry Beeston, 

 Sutmymcad, South Street, Havant ; The Lord Brabourne, 

 19 Curzon Street, W. ; Charles Chubb, British Museum 

 (Nat. Hist.), Cromwell Road, S.W. ; Charles P. Conigrave, 

 F.R.G.S., W. Australian Museum, Perth, W. Australia; 

 Cecil Bodcn Kloss, F.Z.S., F.R.A.I., Curator of the Perak 

 State Museum, Taiping, Federated Malay States; T. Hastings 

 Lees, M.A., 4 Osnaburgh Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. ; 

 Herbert W. Murray, The Old House, Epsom ; Sir Arthur 

 \Y. Riicker, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., 75 Victoria Sheet, 

 S.W.; Harold Bussell, F.Z.S., 16 Beaufort Gardens, S.W. ; 

 Edward F Stanford, Cumberland House, Kensington Court, 

 W. ; Herbert Stevens, North Lakhimpur P.O., Upper 

 Assam, India; Dr. Robert A. Logan van Someren, Uganda 

 Medical Staff, Kyetumi, Uganda. 



The following four ladies were elected Honorary Lady 

 Members :— H.G. The Duchess of Bedford, F.Z.S., Woburn 

 Abbey, Woburn, Beds. ; Miss Dorothea M. A. Bate, Wyseby, 

 Eccleiechan, N.B. ; Mrs. Margaretta Louisa Lemon, F.Z.S., 

 Hillcrest, Redhill, Surrey; Miss Emma Louisa Turner, 

 F.Z.S., Upper Birchetts, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells. 



Mr. James H. Fleming, of Toronto, u as elected a Colonial 

 Member of the Union. 



Dr. Sclater then moved the following resolution, which 

 was seconded by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant and unanimously 

 agreed to : — 



"That the Members of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union have received with great grief the news of the 

 death of their fellow-Member, Mr. Boyd Alexander, 



