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The Society exacts no subscription ; members are formally 

 elected by invitation of the Executive Committee (marked 

 with "^ below), and all interested are invited to communicate 

 with the Secretaries. The control of the Society's affairs is 

 in the hands of a representative council consisting at present 

 of the following : — 



President, the Right Hou. J. W. Lowther, M.P., Dr. I. Bayley Balfour, 

 F.R.S., Sir E. H. Busk, Francis Darwin, F.R.S., Dr. F. D. Drewitt, 

 *G. Claridge Druce, Professor J. Bretland Farmer, F.R.S., E. Fletcher 

 F.R.S., the Right Hon. Sir Edward Grey, Bt., K.G., M.P., the Right 

 Hon. L. V. Harcourt, M.P., *Sir Robert Hunter, K.O.B., Lord Lucas, 

 *E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, *the Hon. E. S. Montagu, M.P., the Earl of 

 Plymouth, C.B., Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., Sir David Prain, 

 F.R.S., *the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, «W. H. St. Quintin, Dr. R. F. 

 Scharff, W. M. Webb. Ex-offido : Hon. Treasurer, *C. E. Fagan, I.S.0. 5 

 Hon. Secretaries, *W. R. Ogilvie-Grant and the Hon. F. R. Henley. 



The Trustees of the British Museum have kindly given 

 permission to the Committee to use the Natural History 

 Museum, Cromwell Road, London, S.W., as the temporary 

 address of the Societv. 



The B.O.U. Xew Guinea Expedition. — Members will be 

 glad to hear that !Mr. WoUaston and his party reached the 

 coast of Dutch New Guinea about September 18th last, and 

 had formed a base-camp on the Oetakwa River as far up as 

 the water was navigable for the launch. Mr. Kloss, of the 

 Perak Museum, who had joined him with a large party of 

 Dyaks, reported that after one week of strenuous work 

 almost the whole of the stores had been transported from the 

 river to the base-camp, and that he hoped very shortly to 

 start collecting at 3000 feet. (See ' Ibis/ 1912, p. 555.) 



