RECORD of PROCEEDINGS. 



The Third International Ornithological Congress, held in 

 Paris, in 1900, elected Dr. E. Bowdler Sharpe President 

 of the International Ornithological Committee and of the 

 Fourth Congress, to take place in England in 1905. 



In August, 1904, Dr. Sharpe, Mr. C. E. Pagan, Dr. 

 Hartert and the Hon. "Walter Eothschild met at Tring 

 to arrange the Programme of the Congress. Dr. Sharpe 

 appointed as Treasurer of the Congress Mr. C. E. Pagan, 

 Assistant-Secretary, British Museum (Natural History), and 

 as Secretaries Dr. Ernst Hartert and Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote. 

 An Organising Committee was then formed, consisting of 

 the following gentlemen : — 



President ") 



Treasurer > ex officio. 



Secretaries ) 



P. Du Cane Godman, D.C.L., P.E.S. 



E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. 



W. E. Ogilvie-Grant. 



P. Penrose, M.D. 



Hon. Walter Eothschild, Ph.D., M.P. 



P. L. Sclater, D.Sc, Ph.D., P.E.S. 



H. P. Witherby. 



This Committee held several meetings in London, and 

 arrangements were made to hold the Congress in the rooms 

 of the London University, Imperial Institute Buildings, 

 during the week 12th to 17th June, to be followed by 

 excursions on the first three days of the following week. 



It was decided that the Congress should be divided into 

 sections, as follows : — 



Section I. — Systematic Ornithology, Geographical Distribu- 

 tion, Anatomy and Palaeontology. 



