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Dr. F. G. Penrose then made the following statement : — 

 " At the last meeting of the Club I suggested the advisa- 

 bility of collecting further data on the migration of birds 

 within the United Kingdom, as I thought that the records 

 now published in the ' Field ' and elsewhere were scarcely 

 sufficient to be of much scientific use. 



" Our Chairman suggested that two or three of the 

 Members who were interested in the matter should meet 

 together and, if possible, bring some scheme before the Club 

 at this evening's meeting. 



" This has been done. Two or three of us have met 

 together, and as the result of our discussions, together with 

 the help and advice obtained by correspondence with some 

 of the leading authorities, we venture to put before the Club 

 the following proposals for discussion : — 



" (1) That a Sub-Committee be appointed by the Com- 

 mittee of the British Ornithologists' Union or 

 of this Club, for the purpose of collecting and 

 collating evidence of the movements of our 

 commoner migrants within this realm. 

 u (2) In order to obtain this evidence, we believe the 

 best way to go to work would be to secure the 

 co-operation of a limited number of competent 

 observers in different parts of the country, who 

 would undertake to fill up and periodically for- 

 ward to a common centre, schedules drawn up 

 and distributed by the Sub-Committee. 

 11 (3) These schedules should be printed forms, con- 

 taining the names of the commoner regular 

 migrants, and so ruled that various points, such 

 as date of first arrival, of arrival in numbers, the 

 sex, &c, could be tabulated. 

 ec The records would have to be summarized and the results 

 drafted into a report, which it is to be hoped would be 

 published either in the ' Ibis' or in our e Bulletin.' 



" We believe that it would be wisest, at any rate at first, to 

 limit the enquiry to England and Wales, but with the hope 

 and intention of being able to fall into line with the work 



