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It was announced that at a meeting of the Committee of 

 the Club held that evening the following Officers had been 

 elected for the ensuing Session of 1909—1910 : — 



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



W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Editor. 



H. F. Witherby, Secretary and Treasurer. 



A. H. Evans, Joint-Editor of ''The Ibis.' 



E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. 



Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., M. P. I Members of the 



R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., Vice- | Committee. 



Chairman (in place of D. Seth-I 



Smith, retiring by seniority). 



Before proceeding with the business of the evening, the 

 Chairman called the attention of the Members to the fact 

 that they had dining with them, as their honoured guests, 

 four of the Members of the B. O. U. Jubilee Expedition to 

 the Charles Louis Mts., Dutch New Guinea : — 



Mr. Walter Goodfellow, Leader. 



Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston, Entomologist, Botanist, and 



Medical Officer. 

 Capt. C. G. Rawling, Surveyor. 

 Dr. Eric Marshall, Assistant-Surveyor and Surgeon. 



These gentlemen were about to sail in the P. & O. ss. 

 ' Marmora/ and expected to arrive at Singapore on the 20th 

 of November. Thence they intended to make their way to 

 Batavia, "where they would be joined by two other naturalists, 

 Mr. W. Stalker and Mr. G. C. Shortridge, who had already 

 gone to the East to make the preliminary arrangements. 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, who had conceived and organised the 

 Expedition, had now collected a sufficient sum of money to 

 maintain it for a year or so, but further assistance would be 

 required to keep it in the field, and subscriptions might be 

 sent to the Treasurer, Mr. C. E. Fagan, at the Natural 

 History Museum, Cromwell Road, S.W. 



Dr. Sclater proposed that a hearty vote of thanks should 

 be offered to the Members of the Expedition for undertaking 



