^ °'i ^^' 1 Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. ^09 



Annual Report, i()iO. 



(jEntlemen.— Your Council has much pleasure in presenting 

 to you its Sixteenth Annual Report. 



As the dreadful war is still going on, the Council considered 

 it advisable to postpone again the annual congress and camp-out 

 in Queensland, as it considered that all our energies and spare cash 

 should go towards helping our country in its time of need. 



During the year thirty-three new members have been enrolled, 

 eleven have resigned, and nineteen have enlisted for active 

 service in the war now going on. We have lost four members 

 through death, which include Mr. Bernard Woodward, late 

 Director of the Perth Museum, and Miss Winnie ^lellor. of 

 Adelaide, obituary notices of whom appear in this Emu. 



Captain S. A. White, the retiring president, has kindly under- 

 taken the duties of local State secretary for South Australia, and 

 Mr. W. T. Foster for Western Australia. Dr. E. A. D'Ombrain 

 and Dr. J. Burton Cleland now represent New South Wales on 

 the Council in place of Dr. Macgillivray and Mr. A. F. Basset 

 Hull, who are now president and vice-president respectively. 

 As Mr. C. L. Barrett, the co-editor of The Emu, has enlisted. Mr. 

 R. H. Croll has kindly undertaken the duties of assistant editor. 

 Mr. A. J. Campbell and Mr. W. B. Alexander have joined the 

 printing committee, and Mr. C. L. Barrett has consented to act 

 as honorary librarian until his departure. 



During the year the Union has had donated to it the sum of 

 £1,000. to enable it to have its own room, in which to house its 

 library and collections and to hold the Council meetings. A room. 

 No. 2 Temple Court. Collins-street, Melbourne, has now been 

 secured and furnished. The same generous donor has also pre- 

 sented to the Union a copy of (rould's valuable " Birds of Aus- 

 tralit^." The Council cannot sufficiently express the thanks of 

 the Union to this gentleman for his great generosity and whole- 

 hearted interest in the cause of ornithology. 



The Council has again to thank the Royal Zoological and 

 Acclimatization Society of Victoria for so kindly continuing to 

 house the Union's growing library. 



The Emu is still being kept up to its normal standard of 

 excellence, and many instructive papers have been published 

 during the year, some of which have been well illustrated ; many 

 interesting photographs have also been published in the Camera 

 Craft column, the Council realizing the value of photography in 

 ornithology. 



W. H. D. Le Souef. Hon. Sec. 



The following office-bearers were unanmiously elected : — 

 President, Dr. W. Macgillivray; vice-presidents. Dr. J. A. Leach, 

 A. F. Basset Hull: hon. secretary, W. H. D. Le Souef: hon. 

 treasurer, Z. Gray : hon. librarian, C. L. Barrett ; hon. editor 

 of Emu, Dr. J. A. Leach : hon. assistant editor, R. H. Croll : hon. 

 press correspondent. Dr. P.. Xicholls : lion, auditor. J. P>arr : 



