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year: — President. John H. Sage, Portland. Conn,; Vice- 

 Presidents, Dr. Witnier Stone, Philadelpliia, and Dr. George 

 Bird Grinnell, New York; Secretary, Dr. T. S. Palmer, 

 1939 Biltmore Street, Washington, D.C. ; and Treasurer. 

 Dr. Jonathan Dwight. '^lew York. Five additions were 

 made to tlie list of Honorary Fellows, and 14 foreign 

 ornithologists Avere enrolled as Corresponding Fellows, in- 

 cluding E. C. Stuart Baker, W. E. Collinge, Tom Iredale, 

 F. C. R. Jourduin, and N. F. Ticehurst. The Honorary 

 Fellows were Dr. Roberto Dabbene of Buenos Aires ; 

 Dr. Alwyn K. Haagner of Pretoria, Transvaal ; Dr. Einar 

 Lonnberg of Stockholm. Sweden ; M. Auguste Mencgaux 

 of Paris ; and J)r. Peter Suschkin of Kharkov, Russia. Five 

 new Members, Dr. Harold C. Bryant, George K. Cherrie, 

 Lieut. Ludlow Griscom, Lieut. J. L. Peters, and R. W. 

 Williams, and 14-7 Associates were added to the rolls. 



Although the Union has had seventy-five of its younger 

 and more active members in military and naval services, it 

 has survived the Avar without suffei'ing any decrease in its 

 membership, its income, or in the size of its journal. It has 

 not found it necessary to increase its dues, and the past year 

 has proved one of the most prosperous in its history. 



The next meeting in 1919 Avill be held in New York Citv. 



Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists^ 

 Union. 



The Annual General Meeting of the British Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union for 1919 Avas held on Wednesday, 12 March, 

 at the Offices of the Zoological Society of London. 



Dr. W. Eagle Clarke, President, was in the Chair. 



There were forty-six Members present. 



The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting Avere read and 

 confirmed. 



The Committee recommended that Mr. W. L. Sclater, 

 M.A., be re-elected Editor of ' The Ibis ' for the succeeding 

 series, and that Mr. H. J. Elvves, F.R.S., be elected a 



