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Library : Periodical Meetings : Ornithological Lectures : the Pub- 

 lication of Ornithological Works — Scientific and Practical : Prize 

 Shews. Living Specimens. — The Rasorial Genera, and their 

 Types, will be particularly attended to, as being most beautiful 

 and attractive, pre-eminently domestic and practically useful. The 

 hardy birds will be gratuitously exhibited in the parks ; those for 

 which buildings are required will be seen by the public on payment 

 of a small admission fee. The Duplicates. — Birds and Eggs will 

 be distributed among the Members. The Museum. — The speci- 

 mens will be accurately named according to the Natural System ; 

 and so arranged as to convey to the student, through the eye alone, 

 a general and accurate knowledge of the affinities and analogies of 

 birds, and to exhibit examples of the different organizations which 

 are known to accompany different habits and modes of life. The 

 Museum will include stuffed Birds, Bird Skins, Skeletons, and^parts 

 of Birds, Nests and Eggs : and will be open, without restriction^, 

 to Scientific Persons and Artists. Library — The Library will 

 contain, ultimately, every Ornithological Work of merit ; British 

 and Foreign Ornithological Periodicals will be taken in, and circu- 

 lated among such of the Members as subscribe an additional Half- 

 guinea for this advantage. i — Periodical Meetings, or Converza- 

 tiones, will be held for the exhibition of living and dead Specimens, 

 Drawings, Books, Nests, &c. — for reading Ornithological Papers, 

 and for oral observations. Lectures.' — Competent Ornithologists 

 Avill be invited to deliver Lectures. Publications. — The Society 

 will publish, or patronize the publication of, a general Ornithologi- 

 cal Work at an accessible price : the proceedings will be published 

 concisely and cheaply : and the Society will collect and publish all 

 the information they can obtain as to the best modes of rearino- 

 Foreign Birds adapted for the Park, the Preserve, the Puultry Yard, 

 and the Aviary. Prizes. — A Prize of the value of L. 15 or L. 20 

 will be given annually for the best Paper on Systematic Ornitholo- 

 gy, in elucidation of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God. 

 Another of the value of L. 10 for the breeding of Foreign Birds: 

 and a third of the value of L.5 for the best method of keeping alive 

 in this country such Foreign Birds as will not breed. Application 

 will be made to Government for a Locality for the Society's Mu- 

 seum, Library, and Housed Collections : if the application be suc- 

 cessful the Museum will be freely open to the Public three days a 

 week. The ordinary Funds, arising from Subscriptions and En- 

 trance Fees, will in the first instance be applied solely to the con- 

 struction of Aviaries, and the purchase, rearing and breediijo- of 

 Birds : and an extraordinary Fund will be raised by tlie creation of 



