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oflScers had been elected for the ensuing Session of 1907- 

 1908:— 



P. L. ScLATER, D.Sc., F.R.S., Chairman. 

 W. E. Ogilvie-Grant, Editor of the ^Bulletin.'' 

 H. F. WiTHERBY, Secretary and Treasurer. 

 A. H. Evans, Editor of the 'Ibis' \ 



E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, Vice-Chairman. j^Jq^Iq^s of the 

 D. Seth-Smith. j- Committee. 



H. BowDLER Sharpe, LL.D., Vice- 

 chairman. I 



The Committee had requested Mr. H. Munt to act as 

 Auditor of the Club's accounts. 



The Chairman then gave his Annual Address to the 

 Club :— 



Brother Members of the B. O. C, — 



On opening the first meeting of the present (sixteenth) 

 Session of this Club, I venture to oifer you a few remarks 

 (as has been my usual custom since I had the honour of 

 occupying this Chair) on some of the principal events in 

 Ornithology that have taken place during the past year. 



In the first place, however, I am bound to allude to the 

 great loss our branch of Science has suffered by the death 

 of Professor ISTewton. It is most fortunate, however, that 

 his important work, the ' Ootheca Wolleyana,' had been 

 completed before his decease, for it would have been hardly 

 possible to find another person able and willing to bring it 

 to a satisfactory conclusion. A careful essay on the late 

 Professor's Life and Work, prepared by one of the original 

 Members of the B.O.U., will be found in the October 

 number of ^The Ibis,' and I need not repeat what is there 

 said. But I may add that Newton left in an unfinished 

 state a large quantity of notes and papers on the history of 

 the Great Auk [Alca impennis), which is well known to 

 have been one of his favourite subjects. It is of course 



