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The election for officers resulted as follows : President, J. A. 

 Allen ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Elliott Coues and Robert Ridgway ; 

 Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. C. Hart Merriam ; Councillors, 

 Prof. S. F. Baird, G. N. Lawrence, William Brewster, H. W. 

 Henshaw, and Montague Chamberlain. 



The election of Foi'eign Members resulted in the choice of the 

 following twenty-one scientists of eminence in Ornithology : Prof. 

 J. V. Barboza du Bocage, Lisbon ; Dr. Jean Cabanis, Berlin ; 

 Mr. Henry E. Dresser, London; Dr. Otto Finsch, Bremen; Dr. 

 H. H. Giglioli, Florence; Dr. John Gundlach, Cuba; Mr. John 

 Henry Gurney, Sr., Norwich, England; Dr. Gustav Hartlaub, 

 Bremen ; Mr Allan O. Hume. Calcutta ; Prof. Thomas Henry 

 Huxley, London ; Dr Ferdinand Krauss, Stuttgart ; Prof. Al- 

 phonse Milne-Edwards, Paris ; Prof. Alfred Newton, Cambridge, 

 England ; Prof. William Kitchen Parker, London ; August von 

 Pelzeln, Vienna ; Count Tommaso Salvadori, Turin ; Mr. Osbert 

 Salvin, London ; Dr. Hermann Schlegel, Leyden ; Dr. Philip 

 Lutley Sclater, London; Mr. R. B. Sharpe, London; Mr. 

 Alfred Russell Wallace, London. 



The following twenty Corresponding Members were elected, 

 further elections in this class being deferred : Count Hans von 

 Berlepsch, Hesse, Germany ; Capt. Thomas Blakiston, Hako- 

 dadi, Japan ; Mr. Walter Buller, Wellington, New Zealand ; 

 Mr. Robert Collett, Christiania, Norway ; Mr, J. J. Dalgleish, 

 Edinburgh ; M. le Pfere Armand David, Paris ; Mr. Percy 

 Evans Freke, Dundrum, Ireland; Mr. F. DuCane Godman, 

 London ; M. Alfred Grandidier, Paris ; Mr. John Henry Gurney, 

 Jr., Norwich, England; Mr. J. Edmund Harting, London; 

 Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, Larbert, Scotland ; Mr. J. Douglas 

 Ogilby, Ireland; M. Emile Oustalet, Paris; Prof. J. A. Pal- 

 m6n ; Mr. Harry Pryer, Yokohama, Japan ; Mr. Howard Saun- 

 ders, London ; Mr. Henry Seebohm, London ; Mr. Leonhard 

 Stejneger, Alaska ; Mr. Henry T. Wharton, London. 



Eighty-seven ornithologists of the United States and Canada 

 were elected Associate Members. 



During the session of the Conventi(5n, aside from the work of 

 organization and elections, committees' were appointed by the 

 Chair to take in hand the consideration of various important sub- 

 jects, and to present reports upon them at the next annual meeting. 

 The most important of these — "A Revision of the Classification 



