PREFACE, 
Tae meeting of the Club arranged to be held in October 
1919 did not take place on account of the railway strike, 
thus only eight instead of the usual nine meetings have 
been held during the past Session. In spite of this, how- 
ever, the total number of attendances has been 369, as 
compared with 319 in the previous Session. 
A large number of new forms have been described, many 
most useful discussions have taken place, and the interest 
taken in the meetings has been fully maintained. 
Perhaps the most noteworthy exhibit during the past 
Session has been that of the extraordinary collection of 
birds from East Africa and Uganda, brought home by 
Dr. Van Someren ; while a very striking exhibition was 
given at the May meeting by Lord Rothschild, of a 
full-sized reconstruction model of the Moa (Dinornis 
maximus ). 
At the February meeting Mr. Stuart Baker delivered a 
very valuable address on “the value of subspecies to the 
Field Naturalist,” and the March meeting was as usual held 
in conjunction with the Annual Dinner of the B. O. U., and 
devoted to an exhibition of lantern-slides. 
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