374 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. [Ibis, 



•'The sale of 'The Ibis" has been well maiutaiued, 

 although this year we have had no large demand for the 

 older hack numbers. There continues to be a certain 

 demand for the B. O. U. List of British Birds, and a few 

 copies have also been sold of the General Index, and Jubilee 

 Supplement. 



''The Committee regret to report the deaths of the fol- 

 lowing members since the last Annual General Meeting : — 

 Professor Dr. L. Brasil, Mr. N. Chaplin, the Marchese 

 G. Doria, Mr. F. DuCane Godman, Colonel W. V. Legge, 

 Mr. J. ('. McLean, Dr. G. Martorelli, Messrs. L. E. 

 Mouritz, T. A. Dorrien-Smith, and F. Sharman. 



'" Owing to the War and the loss of communications, 

 no information Avas received until recently of the death 

 of the Marchese G. Doria, which occurred in 1913. 



'' We would especially wish to place on record at this 

 Annual General Meeting our profound regret at the great 

 loss sustained by the British Ornithologists' Union together 

 with the whole scientific world, in the death ot Mr. F. 

 DuCane Godman, so many years Secretary and President 

 of the Ur.ion, of which he was one of the founders. 



'•The following gentlemen have resigned : — Messrs. J. 

 Backhouse, A. Chapman, W. W. Fowler, Kev. H. E. Fox, 

 J. E. Harting, W. Hartman, P. J. C. McGregor, G. A. 

 MacMillan, A. H. Macpherson, W. K. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 W. P. Pycraft, and W. C. Wright. 



'•The names of Messrs. G. A. Booth, R. Patterson, and 

 J. Sargent have been removed from the List of Members 

 under Rule (5. 



'• The membership of the Union is given below in com- 

 parison \vith the previous five years : — 



1919. 1918. 1917. 1916. 1915. 1914. 



Ordinary Members... 418 

 Extraordinary ., ... 1 

 Honorary .. ••• 7 



Hon. Lady , ••• i^ 



Colonial 'J 



Fureit>u 13 



