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Index Generiim et Specierum A)ivinah'um. — He-port of a Committee, con^ 

 siding o/Sir W. H. Flower {Chairman), Mr. P. L. Sclater, Dr. 

 H. Woodward, and Mr. W. L. Sclater (Secretary), appointed 

 fomiperintendin(j the Compilation of an Index Generum et Specieruni 

 Animalium. 



The Committee have received from Mr. C. Da\ ies Slierborn t}ie following 

 report of work done since the last meeting of the Association. 



Report of ]York done from July 1, 1894, to June 30, 1895. 



Considerable pi'Ogress has been made in recording during the past 

 year, no less than 480 books and pamphlets having been searched page by 

 page. The chief works dealt with were the French dictionaries of the 

 early part of the century ; and when it is mentioned that one of these 

 (' Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles ') runs to sixty volumes of 500 pages 

 each, some idea of the labour expended will be arrived at. 



The determination of exact date of publication has been proceeded 

 with, the chief results comprising — • 



' Sowerby's Recent and Fossil Shells.' 

 ' Shaw's JSTaturalist's Miscellany.' 

 ' Moore's Lepidoptera Indica.' 



Remembering the generous gift of the Association last year, the 

 compiler does not ask for a grant on this occasion, but merely for the 

 reappointment of the Committee. 



Migration of Bird?. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor 

 A. Newton (Chairman), Mr. John Cordeaux (Secretary), Mr. 

 J. A. Harvie-Brown, Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke, Mr. R. M. 

 Barrington, and tJie Rev. E. Ponsonby Knubley, appointed to 

 malce a Digest of the Observations on the Migration of Birds at 

 Lighthouses and Light-vessels. 



The Committee have to report that one of their number, Mr. Wm. Eagle 

 Clarke, has, after very great labour, completed the tabulation, on 2,500 

 prepared sheets, of tlie schedules sent in during nine years from th« 

 lighthouses and light-vessels on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 not a single entry in the original schedules having been omitted. These 

 tabulated sheets have reference to the various birds observed on migration 

 under the separate headings of species, locality, and date. 



There now remains the i-eal and most important part of the work — 

 the results arrived at by the nine years' observation^ — and in order to 

 complete this it is necessary again to consult the vast pile of original 

 schedules with reference to several important headings having connection 

 Avith meteorological conditions and direction of flight. 



