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Donald Woodward Mussel white. 



Captain Thomas Nevill Carlton Nevill. 



John Newman. 



Harry Victor O'Donel. 



Montagu Austin Phillips, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Captain William Watt Addison Phillips. 



Herbert Pratt. 



Bernard John Ringrose. 



Ernest Marcellus Skea. 



Desmond Abel Smith, 



Harry Kirke Swann, F.Z.S. 



Lt. -Colonel Cudbert John Massy Thornhill, 



C.M.G., D.S.O. 

 Major Edward Hugh Ward, R.M.A. 

 Frederick John Waydelin. 

 William Beare Incledon Webber. 

 Commander Alec Thomas Lee Wilson, J. P., R.N. 



The Committee recommended that in order to meet the 

 increase in the size of the Union since its inception, the 

 number of elected members of the Committee should be 

 increased from three to six, making a total with the official 

 number, of nine. This recommendation on being put to 

 the vote, was carried unanimously. 



The Committee, having recently had under consideration 

 rhe accounts of rare or hitherto unknown bird visitors to 

 Great Britain, felt it very desirable that some means should 

 be employed by which these reports might be investigated 

 and stamped with the Authority of the Union before being 

 generally accepted. They accordingly proposed that the 

 present Committee "which deals with the B. O. U. List of 

 British Birds should be enlarged and should in future deal 

 with all cases of this nature, in addition to seeing that the 

 list itself is kept up to date in every respect. 



The Committee therefore proposed that a new Rule 16 

 should stand as follows : — 



" A Committee of nine elected members and the 

 " Honorary Secretary of the Union as Secretary to 



