BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UiNION. 
PRESIDENT, 
r. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S. 
SECRETARY. 
Howard Saunders^ Esq., F.Z.S. 
COMMITTEE. 
The President. ") 
The Editors of ^The Ibis.'' ^ Ex ojficiu. 
The Secretary. ) 
W. E. de Winton, Esq., F.Z.S. (Elected 1899.) 
H. BowDLER Sharpe, Esq., LL.D., F.Z.S. (Elected 1900.) 
Eugene W. Gates, Esq., F.Z.S. (Elected 1901.) 
The British Grnithologists' Union was instituted in 1858 for 
the advancement of the science of Grnithology. Its funds are 
devoted primarily to the publication of ^ The Ibis,"* a Quarterly 
Journal of Grnithology, of which seven series, of six volumes each, 
have been completed. 
The Union consists of Grdinary Members, Honorary Members 
(limited to ten), and Foreign Members (limited to twenty). 
Grdinary Members pay an admission fee of £2, and a contri- 
bution of £1 on election, and £1 on the 1st of January of each 
subsequent year. 
Grdinary Members and Honorary Members are entitled to 
receive a copy of ' The Ibis ' gratis. 
Authors are entitled to 25 extra copies of their papers published 
in ^ The Ibis,'' on applying for them to the Secretary. 
The Election of Members takes place at the General Meetings, 
held in April or May and (if required) in Gctober or November. 
Persons wishing to become Members are requested to apply to the 
Secretary for information. 
Members and Correspondents are requested to observe that : — 
All Papers, Notes, and Letters intended for publication in 
' The Ibis,^ as also all . books and papers intended for review, 
should be addressed to the Editors. 
All communications regarding payment of Subscriptions, changes 
of Address, non-receipt of the Journal or delay in receiving it, 
appUcations for Authors^ copies of Papers, and other matters of 
a like nature should be addressed to the Secretary only. 
Communications regarding the purchase of the Publications 
of the Union, and enquiries regarding these, should be addressed 
to the Publishers, Messrs. Gurney & Jackson, 1 Paternoster 
Row, E.G. 
Communications addressed otherwise than as above indicated 
are liable to delav in being dealt with. 
HGWABD SAUNDERS, 
3 Hanover Square, • Secretary. 
LoncloD, AV. 
•Tanuary L 1902. 
