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BULLETIN/fe^ 



^ MAR 12 1917 ^ 



OF THE '' 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS 



No. CCXXI. 



The two-hundred-and-eighteenth Meeting of tlie Club was 

 held at Pagani's Restaurant, 4.2-48 Great Portland Street, 

 W., ou Wednesday, January 10th, 1917. 



Chairman : Mr. Henry J. Elwes, F.R.S. 



Members present: — E. C. Stuart Baker; E. Bidwell ; 

 H. B. Booth; C. Borrer ; A. D. Bradford; P. F. Bun- 

 yard; P.Buxton; E. V. Earle; A.Ezra; F. H. C. Gould ; 

 Rev. J. R. Hale, C.F. ; Sir H. J. Johnson ; Rev. F. C. R. 

 Jourdain ; G. C. Lambert; H. Munt; C. B. Rickett ; 

 A. D. Sapsworth ; W. L. Sclater; D. Seth-SxMith {Editor) ; 

 C. G. Talbot-Ponsonby {Hon. Sec. ^ Treasurer) ; S. L. 

 Whymper ; H. F. Witherby. 



Guests : — H. R. Munt; W. Rowan. 



The Chairman referred to the great loss which the Club 

 and the Union had suffered by the death of Capt. F. C. 

 Selous, D.S.O., killed in action in German East Africa at 

 an age when very few men were physically capable of active 

 military service in a tropical climate. 



He personally had never known any man who so well 

 combined the character of the best type of Englishman with 

 the highest qualities of an explorer, big game-hunter, field 

 naturalist, and author. His private character as a man 

 endeared him to all who knew him, Boers as well as British. 

 His unrivalled strength of constitution and physique and 



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