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Crowley and W. Graham were appointed Vice-Chairmen 

 for the present Session. 



The Chairman gave his annual Address to the Club, and 

 made the following remarks : — 



" On commencing the proceedings of the Fifth Session of 

 the British Ornithologists'' Club, I cannot refrain from 

 offering a few preliminary remarks on the flourishing con- 

 dition of our Association. It has increased in number 

 regularly year by year, and now embraces, with very few 

 exceptions, the most active and energetic Members of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union. I think that the founders of 

 the Club may be well congratulated upon the undoubted, 

 success which, in the face of some sinister prophecies, has 

 attended their efibrts. 



" Passing on to other topics, I must first call your attention 

 to the very serious losses that have occurred in the ranks of 

 Ornithology since I had the honour of addressing you a year 

 ago. The deaths of Lord Lilford and Mr. Seebohm have made 

 vacancies which it will be hard indeed to fill up. I need 

 not on the present occasion attempt to speak of the events 

 of their lives, which have been treated of elsewhere ; but I 

 will remind you that both of them worked up to almost the 

 last moments of their existence, and left behind them publica- 

 tions unfinished at the times of their decease. Lord Lilford's 

 excellent ' Coloured Illustrations of the Birds of the British 

 Islands ' was nearly at its termination when the death of the 

 author took place. We are pleased to know that some well- 

 qualified friends have arranged to do the little that is neces- 

 sary to render these beautiful volumes complete. As regards 

 Mr. Seebohm's work on British Birds' Eggs, which was 

 announced to be in preparation some time ago, we are glad 

 to learn that Dr. Bowdler Sharpe has completed it for 

 publication, and this, we are told, has not been a difficult 

 task. The same, however, is not likely to be the case with 

 Seebohm's ' Monograph of the Thrushes,' which the energetic 

 Editor of our ' Bulletin ' is likewise prepared to see through 

 the press. Although the plates of this work, as we under- 



