BULLETIN 
OF THE 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 
No, I.XVII. 
The sixty-sixth Meeting of the Club was held at the 
Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 
13th of December, 1899. 
Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 
Members present : — E. Bidwell, J. L, Bonhote, Abel 
ChaPxMan, a. F. Crossman, Philip Crowley, F. H. Car- 
RUTHERS Gould, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, E. Hartert, C. J. 
Hose, J. Graham Kerr, G. E. Lodge, P. H. Munn, 
R. Nesham, H. j. Pearson, E. Lort Phillips, Hon, Walter 
Rothschild, M.P., R. Bowdler Sharpe {Editor), E. 
Cavendish Taylor, N. F. Ticehurst, H. M. Wallis, 
Johnson Wilkinson, L. A. Williams, L. W. Wiglesm orth, 
W. E. DE Winton {Sec. ^ Treas.), H. F. Witherby. 
Visitors : J. C. Chapman, C. E. Fagan, E. Moberley, 
Theed Pearse, Henry Stevens. 
The Chairman referred in feeling terms to the loss vdiich 
ornithological science had sustained by the death of Dr. A. 
C. Stark, who had been killed by a shell during the recent 
fighting at Ladysmith in Natal, whither he had repaired to 
render medical aid to the wounded soldiers. 
A vote of condolence to the relatives of the deceased 
naturalist was unanimously passed by the Meeting. 
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