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" The compilation of the new General Index to ' The Ibis ' 

 for the years 1895 to 1912 was commenced early in December 

 last and is progressing steadily/' 



The statement of accounts for the year 1913, previously 

 circulated to the members, was submitted and approved, 

 and a vote of thanks was accorded to the Auditor, Mr. D. 

 Seth-Smith. 



The Meeting then proceeded to elect the Officers for the 

 ensuing year, and it was announced that Mr. E. C. Stuart 

 Baker had been re-elected Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, 

 and that Mr. W. li. Ogilvie-Grant had been elected a 

 member of the Committee in the place of Dr. N. F. 

 Ticehurst, who retired by rotation. 



The following twenty-one gentlemen were duly elected 

 Ordinary Members of the Union : — Thomas P. Aldworth ; 

 Colonel Robert Betham ; Robert O. Blyth, M.A. ; Colonel 

 Kenneth Buchanan, I.A.; The Rev. F. Courtois, S.J.; Cecil 

 M. Dyer; Laurence A. Curtis Edwards, M.A.; Robert Ethe- 

 ridge, Junr., C.M.Z.S. ; John N. Kennedy ; Major John 

 Lindsay-Smith, LA. ; Willoughby P. Lowe ; John C- 

 Moulton ; Charles R. S. Pitman ; James Wall-Row ; Dr. 

 Hans Sauer, F.Z.S.; John Stewart; Erwin Stresemann- 

 Lewis R. Sutherland, M.B., CM.; The Marquis of Tavis- 

 tock, F.Z.S. ; Chaplin C. Treatt ; Percy F. Wickham. 



It was also resolved that Dr. Valentine Bianchi and Prof. 

 Herman Schalow, at present Foreign Members of the Union, 

 should be transferred to the list of Honorary Members. 



Dr. John Albert Leach, M.A., was elected a Colonial 

 Member, and the following three gentlemen were elected 

 Foreign Members: — Herr Carl E. Hellmayr, M.B.O.U. ; 

 Dr. Witmer Stone; Prof. Dr. A. J. Einar Lonnberg, 

 F.M.Z.S. 



The following alteration to Rule 7, proposed by Mr. C. 

 D. Boner, and seconded by Mr. C. G. Talbot-Ponsonby, 

 was agreed to : — 



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