BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. LXVII. 



The sixty-sixth Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 13th of December, 1899. 



Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present : — E. Bidwell, J. L. Bonhote, Abel 

 Chapman, A. F. Crossman, Philip Crowley, F. H. Car- 

 ruthers Gould, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, E. Hartert, C. J. 

 Hose, J. Graham Kerr, G. E. Lodge, P. H. Munn, 

 11. Nesiiam, H. J. Pearson, E. Lort Phillips, Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, M.P., R. Bowdler Sharpe (Editor), E. 

 Cavendish Taylor, N. F. Ticehurst, H. M. Wallis, 

 Johnson Wilkinson, L. A. Williams, L. W. Wiglesworth, 

 W. E. de Winton (Sec. ty Treas), H. F. Witherby. 



Visitors : J. C. Chapman, C. E. Fagan, E. Moberley, 

 Theed Pearse, Henry Stevens. 



The Chairman referred in feeling terms to the loss which 

 ornithological science had sustained by the death of Dr. A. 

 C. Stark, who had been killed by a shell during the recent 

 fighting at Ladysmith in Natal, whither he had repaired to 

 render medical aid to the wounded soldiers. 



A vote of condolence to the relatives of the deceased 

 naturalist was unanimously passed by the Meeting. 



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