BULLETIN 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



Mo. XI. VIII. 



The forty-seventh ^Meeting of tlie Club was lield at tlie 

 Ptestanrant Frascati, 3,2 Oxford Street^ on Wednesday, the 

 I7vh of November, 1897. 



CIiairma7i : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Members present : — E. Bidwell, J. L. Boxhote, W. 



FiTZHERBERT BrOCKHOLES, P. CR0\VLEy, W. E. De WiNTOX, 



Dr. F. D. Dre'witTj E. N. F. Fenavjck, J. Gerrard, 

 E. HarterTj J. E. Harting, J. G. jMillais, H. Muxt^ 

 E. Neale, 11. Ne.?ham, E. W. Oates, Dr. F. Peneose, 

 Major R. G. Wardlaat Ramsay, H. E. Ea^vsox, R. H. Read, 

 Dr. Percy Rexdall, H. Sauxders (Treasurer), R, Bowdlek 

 Sharpe [Editor), E. Cavendish Taylor,, W. B. Tegetmeier, 

 W. F. Uravick, H. M. Wallis, Watkix Watkixs, L. A. 

 Williams, H. F. Witherby. 



Visitors : J. W. Castle, C. Duxx, F. G. Jacksox, W. H. 

 Urwick. 



After offering- his heartfelt thanks to the Club for their 

 resolution of S3'rapathy passed at the last ]\Ieeting, the 

 Chairman gave the folloAving address : — 



'^ There is probably no greater test of tlie interest taken 

 in a particular subject in these days than the establishment 

 of a journal or pei'iodical specially devoted to its cause. 

 This fact is so obvious that I need not stop to give instances 

 of this being the case. On this occasion, therefore, I propose 



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