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Society’s expense, the stationery necessary for conducting the

Society’s business.


At the suggestion of the Editor it was decided that the name

of the Society’s Pathologist be added to the list of officers of the

Society published at the beginning of each volume of the Magazine,

and that the address of the present Pathologist (Prof. G. H.

Wooldridge), as given in the Magazine, be altered to the Royal

Veterinary College, Camden Town.


A report from the Hon. Business Secretary as to the disposal

of surplus copies of the Magazine was read and considered.


Friday, June 28th, was settled as the date for the Summer

Meeting of the Council, to be followed by a tea party for members in

the Fellows’ Pavilion at the Zoological Gardens, the hour of the tea

to be announced in the June issue of the Magazine.


The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the Zoological

Society for the use of the room for the meeting.



REVIEWS.



BRITISH BIRDS.*


The handsome supplement before us completes Mr. Thorburn’s

great work on British birds. Well illustrated in the author’s exquisite

style, well written, and well printed, these extra sheets are worthy to

'rank with their predecessors in their beauty of bird portraiture and

the interest of their letterpress. Dr. Eagle Clarke’s notes on bird

migration are also quoted in these pages.


Fourteen races or species of birds are portrayed in the work,

mostly with wonderful fidelity. We would single out for special

mention the Hebridean Song Thrush and the St. Kilda Wren on

Plate 80a; it is difficult to say which one prefers—the handsome,

dark, richly-spotted Thrush or the alert, singing Wren, with tip-

tilted tail and crisp, raised wing. The Marsh Titmouse is seen

briskly searching for insects, almost in the very act of whisking right



* ‘British Birds.’ By Archibald Thouburn. Supplementary Part. London:


Longmans, Green & Co.



