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zation on Mount Kenia^ but hopes to find oi^portunities of 

 collecting Natural-History specimens. 



Turning to the British sphere of influence in Africa we 

 find Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S., on his way home from 

 Nyasaland on a well-earned holiday. Capt. Shelley has 

 worked out Mr. Whyte's last collection of birds and will 

 publish the results in the next number of this journal. 

 Mr. Scott Elliot has passed through Uganda^ and by this 

 time is probably on the slopes of Mount Ruwenzori, where 

 he will fix his permanent collecting-quarters. Mr. Coryndon, 

 who slew the White Rhinoceros, is gone back to Mashona- 

 laud, whence he will make his way to the Zambesi, and 

 subsequently by the Shir^ and Nyasa route to the north end 

 of Lake Tanganyika, where he will establish himself for 

 collecting purposes. 



Annivei^sary Meeting of the British Ornithologists^ Union, 

 1894. — The Annual General Meeting of the British Orni- 

 thologists' Union was held at the rooms of the Zoological 

 Society of London, 3 Hanover Square, on Wednesday the 

 9th of May, at 6 p.m. In the absence of The President, 

 Mr. Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S,, was in 

 the Chair. The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting having 

 been read and confirmed, the Report of the Committee 

 was read. It stated that four Ordinary Members (Col. John 

 Campbell, Capt. Geo. Egerton, R.N., Mr. Francis Arnold 

 Knight, and Mr. Harold Littledale, B.A.) had withdrawn, 

 and that one (Lieut. -Col. George Morgan) had died since 

 the last Anniversary. One Honorary Member (Dr. Eduard 

 Baldamus) and one Foreign Member (Dr. A. von Midden - 

 dorff ) had also died. 



The number of the Members of the Union at the close of 

 1893 was 263, consisting of 235 Ordinary, 1 Extraordinary, 

 9 Honorary, and 18 Foreign Members. There were 17 

 Candidates for the Ordinary Membership, 1 for the Honorary 

 Membership, and 3 for the Foreign Membership, to be 

 balloted for at the present Meeting. 



The accounts for the year 1893 were presented by the 

 Secretary, and approved by the Meeting. 



