The Chairman, in addressing the Club on the opening of 

 the Second Session, alluded to the loss sustained by the death 

 of Mr. J. T. Tristram-Valentine, who had been a consistent 

 supporter of the B. O. C. from the commencement, and 

 whose death had deprived the Club of a genial and valued 

 member. Mr. Sclater congratulated his brother-ornitho- 

 logists on the approaching completion of the British Museum 

 ' Catalogue of Birds. ^ The most important publication issued 

 since the last meeting of the Club was the ' Avifauna of Lay- 

 san,' by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and it was to be hoped 

 that the present year would witness the completion of the 

 ' Aves Hawaiienses ' of Messrs. Scott-Wilson and A. H. Evans. 

 Mr. Dresser was about to publish his long-expected ' Mono- 

 graph of the Coraciidaj,' a companion volume to his work on 

 the Bee-eaters. Mr. Sclater further expressed a hope that 

 Mr. Seebohm^s ' Monograph of the Turdidie ' would shortly 

 see the light. 



Referring to the members of the B. 0. IT. engaged in 

 foreign travel, the Chairman said that Mr. John Whitehead 

 had started to explore the interior of Luzon ; Mr. Hose was 

 once more in residence in Baram, to continue his researclies 

 into the zoology of the monntains of Sarawak; Mr. O. V. 

 Aplin had returned from his visit to Uruguay ; Mr. J. G. 

 Millais was engaged in investigations in Mashonalaud ; 

 Mr. Biittikofer was about to explore Dutch Borneo; and 

 Mr. Campbell had returned to Corea. In the next number 

 of the 'Ibis^ would appear the continuation of Capt. Slielley's 

 account of the collections sent from Nyassa-land by ]Mr. 

 H. H. Johnston, C.B. 



The Chairman congratulated Oologists on the approaching 

 completion of the arrangement of the birds' e^y^^ in the 

 Natural History Museum, carried out i)y ^Iw Seebohm. 

 Mr. Sclater then gave an account of the recent meeting of 

 the German Ornithological Society at Cassel, at which he 

 had been present. Referring to a new li-t of the Birds of 

 Germany proposed by that Society, he expressed a hope that 

 before long a revised edition of the B. (). V . List of British 



