34 Klevetith A)inind }[eel'nuf. 



Georgia on tlie 17 January, 1913. He served in South 

 Africa during the war, and made collections of birds and small 

 mammals at Vredefort Road, 0. F. S., and other localities, 

 which were worked up on his return to England. He leaves 

 a wife and six little children. 



8. Smithsonian Miscellaneoits Collections. 



A number of papers on new subspecies of East African 

 birds by E. A. Mearns, gives one cause for thought. Many 

 of these subspecies were " created " on the strength of a 

 single specimen, and some seem to differ so little from their 

 parent types that there appears no valid reason for separating 

 them. This modern craze for creating subspecies is be- 

 coming a curse to the Science of Zoology. 



IX. — Proceedings of the South African Ornithologists' Union. 



Account of the Eleventh Anmial Meeting. 



The Eleventh Annual Meeting was held in the Office of the 

 Director of the Transvaal Zoological Gardens, Pretoria, at 

 3.30 P.M. Sir Arnold Theilek in the Chair. There was 

 a fair attendance of members. 



The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting havino- 

 been read and confirmed, the Ghairman called upon the 

 Secretary to read his report. The statement of accounts 

 was also presented. Both were adopted on the motion of 

 Mr. Roberts, seconded by Mr. Langford ; and on the pro- 

 posal of the latter gentleman, seconded by Mr. Ivan Ayres, 

 Mr. Roberts was appointed to audit the accounts for the 

 year 1913. 



The Chairman asked the members to rise in token of 

 respect to the deceased members of the Union : — 

 Dr. J. W. B. Gunning^ Dr. P. L. Sclater^ Lieut. Halhed, 

 and Thomas Ayres. 



