530 Annual General Meetint/ of the B. 0. U. 



and Mr. J. Lewis Bonliote, ]M.A., F.L.S., Secretary; also 

 that Dr. Ernst Hartert had been elected a INIeraber of the 

 Committee in the place of ]Mr. D. Seth-Smith, who had 

 retired by rotation. 



The following 23 gentlemen were then balloted for and 

 elected Ordinary INIembers of the Union : — Francis 11. S. 

 Baxendale ; C. William Beebe ; Gilbert Blaine, F.Z.S. ; 

 Thomas E. Brown; Patrick A. Buxton; George W. Clark; 

 John F. M. Floyd, B.A. (Oxon.); Arthur Foster, M.R.C.S., 

 Ij.B.C.P. ; Philip Gosse ; George B. Hony ; Capt. Ronald 

 F. Meiklejohn, D.S.O. ; L. Beresford jNIouritz ; Capt. Stanley 

 Pershouse ; Herbert \Y. Robinson ; Dr. Victor G. L. 

 van Someren ; Chai'les H. Wells; ]\Iax Victor Wenner; 

 Capt. Samuel A. White ; Samuel L. Whymper ; William A. 

 Wilkinson, F.Z.S. ; :\rartin S. Wood, il.D. : Cecil Wood- 

 house, M.D.Cantab. ; Hugh Wormald. 



The question of an Editor for the Tenth Series of ' The 

 Ibis ' was discussed and Mr. William Lutley Sclater, on the 

 recommendation of the Committee, was uuanimously elected 

 to that post. 



It was resolved that a portion of the balance left over 

 from the money collected for the B. O. U. Expedition to 

 New Guinea should be given to an Expedition, under Dr. A. 

 F. R. WoUaston, which was shortly going to the same 

 country. 



It was announced that, as a result of fui'ther negotiations 

 with the Government and the Public Departments con- 

 cerned, the northern boundary of the Natural History 

 ]\Iuseum as fixed in 1899 would be maintained, and the 

 land to the south of it would be available for the extension 

 of the Museum. 



Tiie following resolution was agreed to: — 



"That the Committee be empowered to have a ]\ledal 

 struck, to be known as the ]\Iedal of the British Orni- 

 thologists' Uniou, and to be available by resolution at 

 a General Meeting for presentation for eminent ser- 

 vices to Oruitholoijv." 



