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The Chairman announced that at a Meeting of the Com- 

 mittee of the Club, held that evening, the following Officers 

 had been elected for the ensuing Session, 1910-1911 : — 



P. L. ScLATER, E.E.S,, Chairman. 



W. E,. Ogilvie-Grant, Editor. 



H. F. Witherby, Secretary and Treasurer. 



A. H. Evans, Joint-Editor of the 'Ibis.' 



Hon. Walter Eothschild, Vice-Chair- 



[ Members of the 

 D. Seth-Smith. / ^ .,' 



/. T»/r -n /-. 1 Lommittee. 

 W. L. Sclater (m place of Mr. E. Gr. 



B. Meade-Waldo, retiring by 



seniority). 



Dr. E. Hartert was requested to act as Auditor. 



Chairman's Address on Opening the Nineteenth 

 Session or the B. O. C. 



Brother Members of the B, O. C, — 



On taking the Chair at the opening of the Nineteenth 

 Session of our Club I propose, in accordance with the usual 

 custom, to offer you a few remarks on some of the chief 

 ornithological events which have taken place since I occupied 

 that honourable position in October 1909. 



The principal event in our branch of science that has 

 occurred during the past twelve months has been, I think I 

 may say, the successful Meeting of the International 

 Congress of Ornithologists, which was held at Berlin in May 

 and June, under the Presidency of Professor Eeichenow, 

 H.M.B.O.U. 1 am very sorry that I was not able to attend 

 the Meeting myself, but my advancing years are, I think, a 

 sufficient excuse. I am, however, still more sorry that 

 a greater number of our younger Members did not take 

 this excellent opportunity of fraternizing with our German 

 cousins. I am told that only about five or six Ornitho- 

 logists of British nationality were present. The British 

 Ornithologists' Union was, however, well represented by 



