AUSTRALASIAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNlON. 



CO-PATROWS : 



Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. 



OPPICE-BEARERS : 

 President: Mr. D. Le SOUEF, C.M.Z.S., &c. 



Vice= Presidents •''^I^- ^- J' CAMPBELL, Col. Mem. B.O.U. 

 vice=Fresiaenis.^j^^ j. w. MELLOR. 



Acting Hon. Secretary: Mr. A. H. E. MATTINGLEY, C.M.Z.S.' 



(c/o Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. Private Address — 6 Alfred Street, North 

 Melbourne, Victoria.) 



Hon. Treasurer: Mr. J. A. ROSS. 



(Address — Crown Solicitor's Office, Lonsdale St., Melbourne.) 



Hon. Librarian: Mr. A. H. E. MATTINGLEY, C.M.Z.S. 



Press Correspondent : Mr. C. L. BARRETT. 



c^-* * /ni. -E' TMr. a. T. CAMPBELL, Col, Mem. B.O.U. 



Editors of The Bmu{^^ ^^^^^ MORRISON. 



Members of Council : Surgeon-Colonel C. S. RYAN (Victoria), 



Mr. L. HARRISON (New South Wales), Mr. W. M'ILWRAITH (Queensland), 



Mr. BERNARD H. WOODWARD, F.G.S. (Western Australia), 



Mr. a. L. butler (Tasmania), Mr. E. F, STEAD (New Zealand). 



OBJEGTS, &c.- - - - 



5HE objects of the Society are the advancement and popularization 

 1*^ of the Science of Ornithology, the protection of useful and 

 ornamental avifauna, and the publication of a magazine called 

 T/te Emu. 



The business of the Society shall be conducted by a Council, con- 

 sisting of a President, two Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, 

 Editors of The Emu, and six members ; each ofifice-bearer and member 

 of the Council shall retire at the end of each financial year, but shall 

 be eligible for re-election. 



The Annual Meeting shall be held in one or other of the principal 

 towns of the different States, such State to be decided at the previous 

 Annual Meeting. 



Every member shall be required to pay an annual subscription of 

 fifteen shillings, due on the first of July each year. (The usual exchange 

 to be added to Foreign, Interstate and Country cheques, drafts, &c.) 



The offices of the Society shall be at the office of the Hon. Secretary 

 of the Society for the time being, or at such other place as the Council 

 may appoint. 



