year, and the following were uuauimously elected by a show 

 of hands : — 



Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.E-.S. 



[iLip Crowley. 



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 • LH. 



Vice-Chairmen . , ^^ , _, 



J. r EARS ox. 



Mr. Eugene W. Oates was elected a Member of the 

 Committee in the place of Mr. T. Digby Pigott, CB., who 

 retired by rotation. 



The Treasuhek also made a few remarks on the present 

 status of the Club, and was pleased to be able to tell the 

 Members that its financial position was highly satisfactory. 



The Annual Address was postponed until the next Meeting 

 of the Club, owing to the absence of the Chairman in con- 

 sequence of domestic bereavement. An unanimous vote 

 of sympathy with Dr. Sclater on the loss of his son, 

 Capt. Bertram Sclater, was passed by the Meeting. 



Mr. H. L. PoPHAM, who was warmly applauded by his 

 brother-members of the Club, made some remarks on his 

 recent journey to the Yenesei, and exhibited a clutch of four 

 eggs of the Curlew Sandpiper {Anajlochilus subarquatus) 

 which he had taken, along with the female bird shot from 

 the nest. These were the tirst authentic eggs on record. 



^Ir. H. J. Pearson and Colonel Feilden, who also 

 received a hearty welcome from the members, gave a brief 

 account of their expedition to Novaya Zemlya during the 

 summer, a full account of which will appear in 'The Ibis' 

 for January 1898. Mr. Pearson exhibited a series of 

 clutches of the eggs of the Little Stint [Trbiga minuta), as 

 well as some beautiful photographs of nests and eggs of the 

 various birds observed on the voyage. The narrative of the 

 trip was related by Colonel Feilden, and was rendered more 

 than usually interesting by the ample set of photographs 

 taken bv Mr. Pearson. 



