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Grant {Editor), E. Hartert, Ph.D., Gr. E. Lodge, Lt.-Col. 

 A. P. Loyd, Lieut. H. Lynes, R.N., H. Munt, T. H. 

 Neuman, M. J. Nicoll, T. Parkin, Theed Pearse, C. E. 

 Pearson, F. Gr. Penrose, M.D., A. E. Price, W. P. Pycraft, 

 P. R. Ratcliff, C. B. Rickett, Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 Ph.D., M.P., Howard Saunders, E. Sharman, D. Seth- 

 Smith, C. B. Ticehurst, H. M. Wallis, J. I. S. Whitaker, 

 E. A. Wilson, M.D., H. F. Witherby (Secretary and 

 Treasurer), W. H. Workman. 



Visitors : T. F. Althaus, C. E. Fagan. 



It was proposed by Mr. Howard Saunders, seconded by 

 the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and carried unanimously : — 



" That the best thanks of the British Ornithologists' Club 

 be offered to Dr. Bowdler Sharpe for the valuable services 

 which he has rendered by editing the ' Bulletin' since its 

 commencement in 1892, coupled with an expression of regret 

 that he should have found it necessary to resign the Editor- 

 ship/'' 



The Chairman then delivered the following Address : — 



Brother Members of the B. 0. C, — 



I have the pleasure of offering you a few remarks on the 

 occasion of the opening of the 13th Session of the British 

 Ornithologists' Club, which holds its 108th meeting to- 

 night. 



Perhaps the most interesting event that has recently 

 occurred connected with Ornithology has been the safe return 

 to this country of the two British Antarctic Expeditions, 

 both of which have been accompanied by naturalists who 

 have paid special attention to bird-life, and under whose 

 superintendence good collections of birds have been obtained. 

 The c Scotia' was the first to arrive, and, as we are informed, 

 has brought home an excellent series of some five or six 

 hundred skins. These have been sent by Mr. W. S. Bruce 

 to the Edinburgh Museum, to be worked out by our friend 

 Mr. Eagle Clarke. With him will be associated Mr. Alastair 



