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policy has been pursued ever since with unabated 

 success, so that the total number of our Members 

 now amounts, as already stated, to 473, and we have 

 Ornithologists from nearly all parts of the globe 

 associated with us in our undertaking. This expanse 

 of Membership, it need hardly be said, has been of 

 very great advantage to the Union generally, as well 

 as of much assistance to the " Editors " of its Journal, 

 in collecting information from all quarters. 



On concluding the Fiftieth Volume of ' The Ibis ' 

 the Editors feel that they may congratulate the 

 Members of the Union on the prosperity of their 

 Journal, and may express their perfect confidence 

 that its success will not be diminished in future 

 years. 



r. L. s. I 



A. H. E.i 



3 Hanover Square^ 



London, VV., 

 October 1st, 1908. 



