BULB TIN |“ \ oer, 
OF THE 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 
No. CCXXVII. 
Tue two-hundred-and-twenty-fourth Meeting of the Club was 
held at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, 
W., on Wednesday, October 10th, 1917. 
Chairman: The Lord Roruscuitp, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
Members present :—H. C. Stuart Baker; HE. Bipwe tt ; 
P. F. Bunyarp; C.Cuuss; H.N. Cotrart; H. J. Exwes; 
E. Harrert; Rev. F. C. R. Jourparin; G. C. Lampert; 
E. G. B. Mzapze-Waxpo; H. Mun; C. E. Psarson; C. 
Wa M. Preamp; A. E. -Price; F. R. Rarcumrr;, W..L. 
Scrater; D. Sera-Smirn (/ditor) ; H. F. Wirnersy. 
Guests :—E. Herserr; H. R. Monv; T. Tarr. 
The CuarrMan delivered his Annual Address as follows:— 
* BrorHeR Members or THE B. O. C.,— 
“It is already the fourth session of our Club in which we 
find ourselves in the midst of the most terrible infliction 
Humanity has ever endured. ‘The past year has seen many 
and irreparable losses to our Union and Club, due both to 
the war and natural causes. 
“Captain John Cyril Crowley, the great-nephew of the 
late Philip Crowley, a most enthusiastic ornithologist and 
pre-eminently a bird-photographer, was killed in Meso- 
potamia in September 1916; we also have to mourn the loss 
[ October 80th, 1917.| a VOL, XXXVIILL. 
