426 Annual Meeting of the B. O. U. 



London, 3 Hanover Square (by permission of the Council of 

 that Society), on Wednesday, the 11th of May, at 6 p.m., 

 Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting having been read 

 and confirmed, the Report of the Committee was read. 

 It stated that among the losses of Members by death 

 since the last Anniversary they had to record the names of 

 Sir John W. P. Campbell-Orde, Bt., Mr. William Graham, 

 Sir George Lawson, K.C.B., Mr. H. Stacey Marks, R.A.^ 

 Mr. D. Meiuertzhagen, and Mr. C. Bygrave Wharton. 



Four Members had withdrawn, and the elections of three 

 others had been cancelled for non-payment of their entrance- 

 fees and subscriptions. 



The number of the Members of the Union was 324, 

 consisting of 294 Ordinary, 1 Extraordinary, 9 Honorary, 

 and 20 Foreign Members. 



There were 27 Candidates for the Ordinary Membership 

 and 1 for the Honorary Membership to be balloted for. 



The General Index of ' The Ibis ' for the years 1877- 

 1894 had been completed and issued to the Subscribers. It 

 bad been prepared upon the same plan as its predecessor, and 

 formed a volume of 471 pages. As would be seen by the 

 accounts submitted to the Meeting, the cost of this Index 

 had been defrayed, but the finances of the Union had been 

 somewhat taxed thereby, so that the contemplated Subject 

 Index could not be proceeded with until the state of funds 

 of the Union should justify the outlay. This desired result 

 would be greatly hastened if those Members who had not 

 already done so would purchase the ' General Index ' now 

 ready, without which their sets of ' The Ibis ' could not be 

 considered complete. 



The Committee proposed to close the subscription of 

 £1 Is. for the two Index-volumes on August 1st next, after 

 which date the price of each Index would be .€1 Is. 



The Report having been adopted, the accounts for the 

 year were presented by the Secretary, and approved by the 

 Meeting. 



The following 27 Candidates were then balloted for and 



