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use of their offices and rooms during the past year. This 

 was carried unanimously. 



Mr. Elwes moved that a vote of thanks be accorded to 

 the Chairman. This was seconded by Mr. Meade-Waldo 

 and carried. 



The Selous Memorial. 



At the January Meeting of the British Ornithologists* 

 Club a proposal was brought forward by Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 that the Club and the Union should take steps to show 

 their appreciation of the late Capt. F. C. Selous's work and 

 character by establishing some sort of permanent memorial 

 to him, and he further suggested that it appeared to him 

 that the most suitable form which the memorial should take 

 would be a mural tablet of some kind to be placed in the 

 Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, or alterna- 

 tively or in addition the institution of a Selous Medal 

 to be awarded from time to time to such persons as had 

 distinguished themselves as field-ornithologists. It was 

 subsequently resolved that Mr. Elwes and Mr. Stuart 

 Baker should be appointed to arrange the matter and to 

 discuss it with representatives of such other scientific 

 societies as were intei*ested in the career of Capt. Selous. 



A strong Committee has now been formed containing 

 representatives of such bodies as the Royal Geographical, 

 the Zoological, and other Societies, as Avell as Mr. Elwes 

 and Mr. Stuart Baker who have been asked to act as 

 tlhairman and Secretary respectively of the Executive 

 Committee. 



We understand that the Committee have already approved 

 of the suggestion of the erection of a mural tablet in the 

 Museum and that arrangements are being made to collect 

 subscriptions to carry this into efi*ect. 



It is further proposed that the matter of the Selous Medal 

 shall be left to be dealt with by the Committee of the B. O. U., 

 and a definite decision on the matter will shortly be taken 

 and reported on in the next number of 'The Ibis.' 



