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be found in the January number of this year's ' Ibis ' on 

 page 164. 



The scheme met with the cordial approval of the members 

 present. 



Mr. H. M. Wallis made some remarks in regard to the 

 constitution of the Union, and stated that he believed that 

 it was the wish of a considerable body of the members 

 that the Committee of the Union ^;hould be enlarged and 

 at least three additional members appointed. 



The statement was supported by the Rev. F. C. R. 

 Jourdain and others. 



The Chairman announced that this matter would receive 

 the careful consideration of the Committee^ and that the 

 matter would be discussed at the next Annual Meeting, 



Dr. Coltart proposed a vote of thanks to the Zoological 

 Society for tiie use of their Meeting Rooms. 



This was seconded by Mr. E. Bidvvell and carried 

 unanimously. 



A vote of thanks to the Auditor, Mr. Munt^ was proposed 

 by .Ml'. 11. Matthews and carried unanimously. 



Mr. Meade Waldo proposed a vote of thanks to the 

 Chairman^ which was also carried unanimously. 



The usual dinner was held later in the evening at 

 Pagani's Restaurant in conjunction with the British Orni- 

 thologists' Club, and was largelv attended. 



The Ogilvie collection of British Birds. 



The fiue mounted collection of British Birds made by the 

 late Mr. Fergus Monteith Ogilvie, who died last year at 

 Oxford, has been presented by his widow to the Ipswich 

 Museum. The birds are all set up in separate cases on 

 much the same plan as those in the Booth Museum now at 

 Brighton. These cases are 238 in number, and the birds 

 contained in about 150 of them were obtained in Suffolk. 



