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secure membership and correspondents from all parts of the 
Commonwealth, and from the whole region which I have brought 
under your notice. It is sincerely to be hoped that our brethren 
in New Zealand will extend the hand of fellowship to us, and 
resort to the pages of The Evni to impart to us information from 
time to time on the ornis of that remarkable country. Person- 
ally my own ambition is that The Emu should specially prove 
itself to be the standard medium of information to the world 
at large on the ornithology of Australia. To this end let 
naturalists from all our States join the ranks of the Australasian 
Ornithologists' Union and make its journal worthy of the new 
nation, which has such a grand future before it. 
The president's address having been read, Sir Samuel Way 
proposed that the thanks of the Union be conveyed to Col. 
Legge for his very able and instructive address. Seconded by 
Mr. Edwin Ashley, and carried. 
SECOND DAY. 
On Saturday, 2nd November, members were taken in a drag 
to Happy Valley Reservoir, in the vicinity of which, in company 
with their hosts — the party, including ladies, numbering 23 — 
they spent some hours pleasantly. Some interesting birds were 
noted, am.ong them being the Boobook Owl, Yellow-rumped 
Pardalote, Bee-Eater, Swallow Dicaeum, Warty-faced Honey- 
eater, Bronzewing Pigeon, &c., while on the reservoir a Musk 
Duck and a number of Coots were seen. 
At the evening meeting on Saturday, at the Royal Society's 
Hall, Mr. Symonds Clark took the chair, in the absence of the 
vice-president. 
It was proposed by Mr. E. Ashley, and seconded by Sir 
Samuel Way — " That the next session of the Union be held in 
Melbourne." Carried unanimously. 
Mr. Zietz having taken the chair, the secretary read a paper 
by Mr. W. M'llwraith, Rockhampton, on " Corresponding and 
Observatory Stations," in which the author advocated the 
appointment of corresponding members and the establishment 
of observatory stations in different parts of the Australian 
continent. 
Sir Samuel Way suggested that the Council of the Union 
should take steps to carry out Mr. M'llwraith's suggestions, and 
moved — " That it be an instruction to the Council to endeavour 
to arrange for correspondents in the manner suggested by the 
paper." Circulars might be distributed amongst the members 
in the various States, and it would thus be possible to ascertain 
what members, like Mr. M'llwraith, were willing to become 
corresponding members, and in that way a beginning could be 
made. 
Messrs. A. J. Campbell and E. Ashley having spoken in support 
of the motion, it was seconded by Mr. H. Kendall, and carried. 
