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



Dr. Charles Hose, Mr. A. H. Smith, and Major C. L. 

 Williams had resigned, and Messrs. F. H. Bulkeley- Johnson 

 and R. C. Wood had had their elections cancelled at their 

 request. 



At the date of the Meetitig the Union consisted of 414 

 Ordinary Members, 2 Extra-Ordinarj, 10 Honorary, G 

 Colonial, and 19 Foreign Members. 



The Committee proposed that, in consequence of the 

 death of Prof. Newton, the Jubilee Meeting in 1908 should 

 take place in London, instead of Cambridge, about the 

 second Aveek in December. This was agreed to. 



On the motion of Dr. Sclater, seconded by Dr. Hartert, 

 it was then resolved : " That the following Members be 

 requested to act on a Joint Committee along with the 

 Ordinary Committee to make the necessary arrangements 

 for the Jubilee Meeting in December next : — Messrs. Edward 

 Bidwell, H. E. Dresser, and E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, the 

 Hon. Walter Kothschihl, Mr. D. Seth-Smith, and Dr. K. 

 Bowdler Sharpe.'' 



The Statement of Accounts for the year ending Deccml)er 

 31st, 1907, was submitted and approved, and a vote of thanks 

 was accorded to Mr. W. R. Ogiivie-Grant, the Auditor. 



Mr. Henry Munt and Dr. F. G. Penrose having been 

 appointed Scrutineers to superintend the ballot, the Meeting 

 })roceeded to elect the Officers for the ensuing year, and it 

 Avas announced that Dr. F. DuCanc Godman, F.R.S., had 

 been re-elected President, and Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A., 

 F.L.S., Secretary; also that Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant had 

 been elected a Member of the Committee in the place of 

 Mr. H. E. Dresser, who had retired by seniority. 



The following 25 gentlemen were elected Ordinary 

 Members of the Union :— Dr. John W. Ashworth, M.R.C.S., 

 L.R.C.P., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., Thome Bank, Heaton Moor, 

 near Stockport ; Crispin A. Ball (Soudan Civil Service), 

 Dueim, Soudan ; Walter I. Beaumont, F.Z.S., 1 Osborne 

 Place, Plymouth ; Clifford D. Borrer, 6 Durham Place, 

 Chelsea, S.W. ; Edward J. Brook, Hoddam Castle, Eccle- 

 fechan, N.B. ; Percy F. Bunyard, F.Z.S., 57 Kidderminster 



