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Secretary, who rvill bring the names of their Candidates 

 he fore the Committee. The list of Caudidates, -vvith their Pro- 

 posers aud Seconders, shall be circulated among the Membera 

 at least fourteen days before the ballot along with the summonses 

 for the General Meeting. 



l\Ir. Ogilvie-Graut annomiced that the B.O.U. Expedition 

 to New Guinea was now on its way home, and that it had 

 reached a height of 5000 feet in the Cliarles Louis Mountains 

 and had made Large collections and important discoveries. 



The following two motions, brought forward by the 

 Committee, were put to the meeting and carried : — 



''That the Committee consider it desirable that a 

 new edition of the Union's List of British Birds be 

 prepared, and that a small Special Committee be 

 appointed with a view to preparing the same.^^ 



" That the following members of the B.O.U. be 

 requested to act on the Committee : — The President, 

 the Editors, and the Secretary ; Mr. W. B. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Mr. H. E. Dresser, Mr. W. Eagle-Clarke, and 

 Dr. N. F. Ticehurst." 



On the motion of JMr. Ogilvie-Grant the following resolu- 

 tion was carried unanimously and ordered to be communicated 

 to the Trustees of the British Museum : — 



" That in the opinion of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union it is essential that the whole of the land sur- 

 rounding the Natural History Museum should be 

 reserved for the extension and expansion of that institu- 

 tion, for which the land was definitely given to the 

 Trustees in 1899, and that it should on no account be 

 appropriated or used for any other purpose. They 

 trust that the proposal recently brought forward by 

 the Office of Worts to use this land for other purposes 

 may be reconsidered." 



Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo proposed, and Mr. H. M. 

 Wallis seconded, that the Secrctarv should send a letter to 



