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THE JUBILEE OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' 



UNION. 



The meeting to celebrate the Jubilee of the foundation of the 

 B.O.U. in 1858 was held at 3, Hanover Square, on December 

 9th, 1908. Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, the President, was in 

 the chair, and the proceedings commenced by the reading 

 of a number of congratulatory messages from other 

 Ornithologists' Unions. Dr. Godman then gave a short 

 address, which showed how intimate had been the relation 

 between the progress of ornithology and the progress of 

 the B.O.U. Dr. P. L. Sclater gave a history of the Union, 

 its journal, the " Ibis," of which he has for so many years 

 been editor, and its founders, chief amongst whom was the 

 much-lamented Alfred Newton. Mr. A. H. Evans spoke 

 very briefly of the life and work of some of the founders. 



Mr. Henry Upcher, as the earliest (surviving) elected member 

 (1864), then took the chair, and presented on the behalf 

 of the members of the Union, a gold medal to each of the four 

 (surviving) founders, viz.. Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater, Mr. Percy Godman, and Mr. W. H. Hudleston. The 

 medal bears on the obverse the well-known figure of the Ibis, 

 on the reverse the name of the recipient. 



A facsimile of the original list of the twenty founders, 

 written by Newton and corrected by Dr. Sclater in 1859, was 

 handed round. Amongst the names famous in ornithology, 

 besides those already mentioned, may be noted Lieut. -Col. 

 H. M. Drummond (first President), T. C. Eyton, J. H. Gurney 

 (Senr.), Hon. T. Lyttleton Powys (afterwards Lord Lilford), 

 Osbert Salvin, Rev. (afterwards Canon) H. B. Tristram, and 

 John Wolley. 



In the evening a largely attended commemorative dinner 

 was held. 



A special volume of the " Ibis " commemorating the Jubilee 

 and containing a history of the Union, with lives of the 

 founders and principal members, together with portraits, 

 will be published shortly. 



THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION AND RARE 

 BREEDING BIRDS. 



At the annual meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 

 held in May last, H. F. Witherby proposed a new rule, the 



