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Dr. H. O. Forbes then proposed tliat the names of all 

 enemy alien members be removed from the Lists of 

 Members of the Union, but the Chairman ruled him out 

 of order and explained that the same question had been 

 considered at a Special General Meeting called for the 

 purpose only three mouths previously. 



Mr. G. A. Macmillan, Secretary of the Hellenic Society, 

 stated that the Royal Society had been approached on tlie 

 question of taking action against enemy alien members, 

 and it was decided that should a meeting of members of 

 Scientific Societies be summoned by the Royal Society to 

 consider this question, the B. O. U. should be represented 

 thereat. 



The meeting then closed with a hearty vote of thanks to 

 the Chair. 



Recent accessions to the Natural History Museum. — We 

 hear that Mr. A. L. Butler has recently presented to the 

 Museum the remainder of his magnificent collection of 

 Soudanese birds in addition to those previously given. 

 He has also included in his gift a valuable collection of 

 birds from Ceylon and a series of beautifully prepared skins 

 from Great Britain, Europe, and India as well as special 

 collections of Paradise -Birds, Kingfishers, and Pittas. 

 The Indian collections were made by the late Lt.-Col. E. A. 

 Butler — Mr. A. L. Butler's father, who has recently died. 



The Soudanese collection alone consists of 722 skins and 

 includes the types and unique examples of Cisticola butleri, 

 C. ivellsi, and Lagonosticta butleri collected by Mr. Butler 

 in the Bahr-el-Gazal, 



Another very valuable accession recently received in the 

 Bird-room is a selection of the collection of birds recently 

 made for Mr. E. J. Brook by Mr. Walter Goodfellow in the 

 high mountains of Ecuador. These specimens, 87 in number, 

 have been chosen out of the wdiole collection of 1350 skins 



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