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Secretaries : S. Chernel von Chernelhaza. 

 Dr. F. Gr. Penrose. 



Section V. (Aviculture). 



President : E. Gr. B. Meade- Waldo. 

 Vice-Presidents : Freiherr Hans von Berlepsch. 



Baron J. de Guercie. 

 Secretaries : Dr. J. Büttikofer. 

 D. Seth-Smith, 



The Secretary read some letters and telegrams from Orni- 

 thologists who sent greetings and expressions of regret at 

 their inability to attend the Congress. 



The President then delivered his address, at the termination 

 of which the meeting closed. 



In the evening many Members and their friends gathered 

 at the Naval, Shipping and Fisheries' Exhibition at Earl's 

 Court. 



Wednesday, June 14th. 

 General Meeting. 



At 10 a.m. — Prof. Giglioli opened the meeting, and after 

 some business communications by Dr. Hartert, called upon 

 Mr. Frank M. Chapman to deliver his lecture : " What 

 constitutes a Museum Collection of Birds." The lecture was 

 illustrated by numerous very instructive lantern slides. 

 Dr. Paul Leverkühn gave an address on the distribution and 

 breeding habits of Aquila imperialis and Neophron percnop- 

 terus in Bulgaria. Mrs. Ilona Ginever, having been 

 introduced by Mr. Herman, read in English the latter's 

 paper " On the Migration of Birds." 



Mr. Herman then addressed the Congress on the work 

 carried on by the "Hungarian Central Bureau of Orni- 

 thology," illustrating his remarks by numerous lantern 

 slides of maps showing the beginning, height, and decline 

 of the spring-immigration of the Swallow in Hungary. 



Copies of this paper and of a larger Memoir, " Recensio 

 Critica automatica of the Doctrine of Bird Migration," by 

 the same author, which was dedicated to the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, were given to those present. 



