1920.] Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 511 



Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union. 



Tlie Annual General Meeting of the British Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union for 1920 was held on WednesdaVj March 10, 

 at the Offices of the Zoological Society of London, Dr. W. 

 Eagle Clarke, President, in the Chair. 



There were tliirty-eight Members present. 



The Minutes of the last Annual IMeeting were read and 

 confirmed. The Accounts were accepted and passed. 



Tlic Committee recommended that Dr. P. R. Lowe, B.A., 

 M.B., B.C., be elected a member of the (committee, in tiie 

 place of Mr. 11. E. Howard who retires by seniority. This 

 recommendation was confirmed by the Meeting. 



The Annual Report of the Committee was read as 

 follows : — 



" The Committee regret they have to report that, although 

 tlie Accounts for 1919 balanced, the finances of the Union 

 are not in a salisfaetory condition. On the 1st Januarv, 

 1919, there was a balance of roughly £140. The whole of 

 this has been expended during the current year and, in 

 addition, they have exhausted special donations amounting 



to :eiio. 



"The cause of the increase in expenditure is entirely due 

 to the increase in the cost of publishing 'The Ibis,' which 

 has risen from roughly £700 in 1918 to £1,000 in 1919, 

 and this although the increases charged both for letterpress 

 and for reproduction of ])lates havo not been so great as 

 those generally obtaining in the trade. During Ihe present 

 year, a further increase of 25 jjcr cent, will have to 

 be met. 



"It is evident, therefore, that receipts will not meet 

 expenditure in future years unless some s})ecial arrange- 

 ments are made. In 191G the subscription to the Union 

 was raised from 20.s". to 25.9., and the Committee are loath 

 to recommend a further increase until an effort has been 

 made, and failed, to obtain the money by other means. 



