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after an explanation of the prosperous state of the finances, 

 and of the successful completion of the last volume of ' The 

 Ibis/ it was announced that it had been deemed advisable to 

 make some alteration in the mode of rendering the accounts. 

 One account, already issued to the Members, showed the cost 

 of the volume for 1888 ; while a second account laid before 

 the Meeting showed the exact balance in hand on the 31st 

 of March last. 



Since the last Anniversary one Foreign Member (General 

 Prejevalsky) had died, and two ordinary Members, Sir Victor 

 Brooke and Mr. George Cavendish Taylor, had resigned. 

 The total number of Members was stated to be at present 

 204, viz. 174 Ordinary, 1 Extraordinary, 9 Honorary, and 

 20 Foreign Members. The vacancy in the list of Honorary 

 Members remained to be filled up at the next Anniversary. 



The lease of the house, No. 6 Tenterden Street, Hanover 

 Squai'e, having expired, the Committee had arranged that 

 the official head-quarters of the B.O.U. should in future 

 be at 18 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, London, W., to 

 which communications could be addressed. 



The following Ordinary Members were then balloted for 

 and declared duly elected : — 



Richard James Balston, Springfield, Maidstone 



Ewen Somerled Cameron, Burgar, Evie, Orkney. 



Stephenson Robert Clarke, Croydon Lodge, Croydon. 



William Henry Dobie, M.R.C.S., 22 Upper Northgate 

 Street, Chester. 



Gerald Barrett Hamilton, Kilraannock House, New 

 Ross, Wexford. 



Frederick Ponsonby Johnson^ Castlesteads, Brampton, 

 Cumberland. 



Arthur Purvis Loyd (late Major 21st Hussars), Bclgrave 

 Mansions, Grosvenor Gardens, S.W. 



Christopher John Naylor, Brynllywarch, Kerry, Mont- 

 gomeryshire. 



Bertram Savile Ogle, Hill House, Steeple Aston, 

 Oxford. 



