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XXIV. — Proceedings at the Annual General Meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, 1913. 



The Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union for 1913 was held (by permission) at the Offices of 

 the Zoological Society of London on April 9th. The Chair, 

 in the unavoidable absence of the President, was taken by 

 Mr. Edward Bidwell, the senior member of the Committee. 



Letters regretting their inability to be present at the 

 meeting were read from Mr. F. D. Godniau and Mr. J. Lewis 

 Bouhote. 



The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting were 

 read and confirmed. 



The Beport of the Committee for the past year was read 

 as follows : — 



"The Committee have to report the continued prosperity 

 of the Union during the past year, both as to Membership 

 and as to Finances. The Annual Volume of ' The Ibis ' 

 for 1912, published in due course, is the fifty-fourth, and 

 the sixth and last of the Ninth Series under the joint 

 Editorship of Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., and I\lr. A. 11. 

 Evans, M.A. It contains 738 pages and is illustrated with 

 ten coloured and two photographic plates, two maps, and 

 fourteen text-figures. 



" As regards the accounts, which have been audited in 

 detail by Mr. D. Seth-Smith, the total receipts in 1912 

 were £663 19^. lOd., as compared with £61-2 Us. 7d. in the 

 previous year ; and the total payments amounted to 

 £630 4s. 5d. as against £697 9^. 0^. in 1911. The balance 

 carried forward to 1913 was £139 25. 5f/. The decrease in 

 payments is mainly due to the diminished cost of the volume 

 of'' The Ibis' for 1912. 



'' With regret the Committee report the deaths of the 

 following Members since the last Annual General Meeting: — 

 W. I. Beaumont, F. J. Cade, A. O. Hume, Lt.-Col. C. H. 



