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The Secretary's report showed the status of membership at the 

 opening of the Congress to be as follows : Active Members, 49 ; 

 Honorary Members, 25 ; Corresponding Members, 68 ; Associate 

 Members, 25S. 



During the year just past the Union lost by death one Corre- 

 sponding Member, Dr. Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer,* of 

 Stolp, Pomerania, and two Associate Members, as follows : Mr. 

 Wm. L. Breese,t of Islip, Suffolk Co., N. Y., and S. Lowell 

 Elliott, Ph.D., I of Brooklyn, N. Y. Since the founding of the 

 Union one death has occurred among the Honorary Members, 

 three among the Active Members, eight among the Corresponding 

 Members, and twelve among the Associate Members. The Secre- 

 tary presented a tabular statement of the membership at the opening 

 of each congress of the Union, and the attendance at the meetings, 

 which shows a steady and encouraging increase in respect to 

 both membership and attendance, the statistics being as follows : 



1SS3 

 1884 

 1SS5 

 1 886 

 1S87 

 1S8S 

 1SS9 



Number of Members 



Corre- 

 Active. Honorary. sponding. 



3 3 



44 20 



47 25 



45 25 



46 25 



45 2 5 

 49 2 5 



1SS9,- New York 



* For obituary note see 'The Auk,' Vol. VI, p. 341. 



t See 'The Auk,' Vol. VI, p. 81. 



t See 'The Auk,' Vol. VI, p. 206. 



§Two Honorary Members also were present. 



