BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



No. LXVI. 



The sixty-fifth Meeting of the Club was hold at the 

 Restaurant Fras'cati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 22nd of November, 1899. 



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



Members present : — Boyd Alexander, E. Bidwell, A. F. 

 Crossman, F. Curtis, F. D. Drewitt, M.D., E. F. Fenwick, 

 F. H. Carruthers Gould, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, E. 

 Hartert, E. Neale, R. Nesham, Eugene W. Oates, H. J. 

 Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D.,T. Digby Pigott, C.B., Robert 

 H. Read, A. D. Sapsworth, Howard Saunders, R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe {Editor), H.Scherren,W. L. Sclater, E. Cavendish 

 Taylor, W. B. Tegetmeier, N. F. Ticehurst, C. Whymper, 

 L. A. Williams, W. E. de Winton (Sec. § Treasurer), 

 H. F. Witherby, J. Young. 



Visitors : C. E. Fagan, T. S. Tait, Hon. E. H. Wittenoom. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe handed round to the Meeting 

 facsimiles of two letters in Gilbert White's handwriting, 

 one addressed to Thomas Pennant and the other to the 

 Hon. Dames Barrington. 



The Chairman then gave his Annual Address to the 

 Club :— 



Brother Members of the B. O. C, — I thank you for the 

 honour you have done me by electing me Chairman for the 



[November ZQth, 1899.] 



