PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



7th Annual General Meeting. 



This was held on the 25th of February 1920, and was 

 attended by 18 members and 2 guests. 



The report and accounts for 1919, showing a membership of 

 59, and a balauce in hand of Tcs. 301, were accepted and passed. 



The election of officers for the year 1920 resulted as 

 follows : — President, Mr. W. J. F. Williamson ; Vice President, Dr. 

 Malcolm Smith ; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. C. L. Ground- 

 water ; and a committee consisting of the above three members and 

 Messrs. S. G. Lambert, ^L. Brewitt-Taylor, and C. E. W. Hogge. 

 Owing to the pending absence of Dr. Smith on leave, Mr. Williamson 

 agreed to carry on the work of editing the journal with Mr. Brewitt- 

 Taylor as co-editor. 



The President informed the members that a sum of f 1,500 or 

 Tcs. 1,951.22 had been received from the F. M. S. Museums, as their 

 contribution to the cost of publication of a series of papers on the 

 Vertebrates of Peninsular Siam in the Society's Journal. 



The business part of the meeting having been concluded, Mr. 

 Williamson exhibited a series of the Woodpeckers and Barbets of 

 Siam. Mr. Herbert exhibited some of the mammals collected by 

 him in the past and described in a previous number of the Society's 

 Journal by Mr. Boden Kloss. (Vol. II., No. 1). He also showed 

 specimens of the wings and tails of the Fantail and Pintail snipe, 

 showing the changes due to moult which take place when the birds 

 arrive in this country. Dr. Smith exhibited some interesting snakes 

 and lizards. 



2nd Ordinary General Meeting, 1920. 



The 18th Ordinary General Meeting was held on December 

 10th, 1920, at the offices of the Bangkok Times. Mr. Williamson 

 was in the chair. There were present 7 members and 11 guests. 



The minutes of the last ordinary general meeting were read 

 and confirmed. Mr. Williamson then exhibited a collection of zoolog- 

 ical specimens obtained at Pulo Condore during the previous 

 month, by collectors sent there jointly by Mr. C. Bcden Kloss and 

 himself. This expedition he stated was the second in which he had 

 had a part, the previous one having been sent there by Dr. Malcolm 

 Smith and himself in the autumn of 1919. The results of the first 

 were being described in the Journal then in course of issue, and they 

 had been of sufficient interest to justify a second and longer 

 expedition. 



After briefly describing the geographical position of the 

 group to which the larger island gives its name, and mentioning the 

 famous travellers of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries who 

 had visited the island, Mr. Williamson proceeded to deal with the 

 specimens exhibited at the meeting. These included examples of 



VOL. IV, NO. 3, 1921. 



