BULLETIN 
OF THE 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 
No, LXVI. 
The sixty-fifth Meeting of the Club was held at the 
Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 
22nd of November, 1899. 
Chairman ; P. L. Sclatek, F.R.S. 
Members present : — Boyd Alexander, E. Bidwell, A. F. 
Crossman, F. Curtis, F. D. Drewitt, M.D., E. F. Fenwick, 
F. H. Carruthers Gould, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, E. 
Hartert, E. Neale, R. Nesham, Eugene W. Oates, H. J. 
Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D.,T. Digby Pigott, C.B., Robert 
H. Read, A. D. SApsworth, Howard Saunders, R. Bowdler 
Sharpe {Editor), H. Scherren, W. L. Sclater, E. Cavendish 
Taylor, W. B. Tegetmeier, N. F. Ticehurst, C. Whymper, 
L. A. Williams, W, E. de Winton {Sec. Treasurer), 
H. F. Witherby, J. Young. 
Visitors : C. E. Fagan, T. S. Tait, Hon. E. H. Wittenoom. 
Dr. Bowdler Sharpe handed round to the Meeting 
facsimiles of two letters in Gilbert W'hite^s handwriting, 
one addressed to Thomas Pennant and the other to the 
Hon. Daiues Barrington. 
The Chairman then gave his Annual Address to the 
Club 
Brother Members of the B. O. C., — I thank you for the 
honour you have done me by electing me Chairman for the 
'{November 30 th, 1899.J 
