2.21 Letters, Notes, Extracts, fyc. 



Members were present. Dr. P. L. Sclater, E.R.S., Mr. A. H. 

 Evans, M.A., F.ZS, and Mr. A. Trevor- Battye, M.A., F.Z.S., 

 all Members of the B. 0. U., were present. The Secretary, 

 Mr. A. K. Haagner, read the Annual Report, which shewed 

 that the Membership now amounted to 80, and that satis- 

 factory progress had been made. The Report was adopted. 



Twentv-one new Members were elected. The following: 

 Officers were then elected for the ensuing year:- — President, 

 W. L. Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; Vice-Presidents, 

 Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, F.Z.S., and Professor Duerdenj 

 Hon. Secretary, A. K. Haagner, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.; Hon. 

 Treasurer, H. O. Collett ; Council, L. E. Taylor, M.B.O.U. 

 (Transvaal), John Wood (Cape Colony), J. G. Hatchard, 

 F.R.A.S. (Orange River Colony), A. D. Millar, Col.M.B.O.U. 

 (Natal), and G. A. K. Marshall, E.Z.S. (Rh< dejia). 



Dr. Sclatsr, F.R.S., one of the original Members of the 

 B. O. U., who is an Honorary Member of the S. A. O. U., 

 congratulated the Union on the success which had attended 

 its first year's operations and impressed upon Members the 

 necessity of founding Museums and of making collections 

 of local fauna (birds in particular) a prominent feature of 

 them.— [A. K. II.] 



The Extinct Penguins of Antarctica. — Dr. Nordenskjold 

 has already announced the discovery of the remains of some 

 extinct species of Penguins in the Eocene formation of 

 Seymour Island during the sojourn of the Swedish Antarctic 

 Expedition in that part of the South-polar Seas. These 

 remains have now been carefully studied by Mr. Carl 

 Wyman, who describes the results in a recently published 

 part of the ' Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen 

 Siidpolar- Expedition ' (Band iii. Lief. i.). It appears that 

 the Eocene Penguins deviated in some remarkable points of 

 structure from those of the present day and must be referred 

 to new genera, which are named Anthropornis, Delphinornis , 

 Ichthyopteryx, and Eospheniscus. Of these Anthropornis 

 nordenskjbldi is shown to have been considerably larger than 

 the existing Emperor Penguin [Aptenodytes fursteri). 



