62 Meeting of Permanent Committee. 



PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL ORNITHOLOGICAL 

 COMMITTEE. 



The proposed meeting on the 13th June could not be held 

 because the General Meeting lasted too long. A well- 

 attended meeting was held on the 17th, at 10 a.m., the 

 President being in the chair. 



Dr. E. Hartert gave a full report of the work of the 

 Committee since the Congress in 1900. The principal facts 

 were as follows : — 



Owing to bad health, Dr. Sharpe had asked Professor 

 Oustalet to retain the duties of President of the Committee 

 and editor of the " Omis, 1 ' so that it was not until the late 

 autumn of 1904 that he entered upon his duties as President. 

 He elected his Treasurer and Secretaries and their work 

 began. The time being already far advanced, these officers 

 were not able to do much more than to organise the present 

 Congress. Prof. Oustalet had edited two volumes of the 

 " Ornis," and the new officers of the Committee have begun 

 another volume (13), the first number of which was now pub- 

 lished, and contained articles by Victor Ritter von Tschusi 

 zu Schmidhoffen, E. Hartert, and C. E. Hellmayr. 



Mr. Bonhote went to Paris in February, and received from 

 Prof. Oustalet the funds and papers belonging to the Com- 

 mittee. Prof. Oustalet and Dr. Blasius had given accounts 

 of their expenses and income as follows : 



