PROCEEDINOS OF SOCIETIES. 
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The hardy birds will he gratuitously exhibited in the Parks; those for which 
buildings ^are required will be seen by the public on payment of a small ad¬ 
mission fee. 
The Duplicates. —Birds and eggs will be distributed among the Members. 
The Museum.-— specimens will be accurately named according to the na¬ 
tural system; and so arranged as to convey to the student, through the eye 
alone, a general and accurate knowledge of the affinities and analogies of birds, 
and to exhibit examples of the different organizations which are known to ac¬ 
company different habits and modes of life. The museum will include stuffed 
birds, bird-skins, skeletons, and parts of birds, nests, and eggs, and will be open, 
without restriction, to scientific persons and artists. 
Tihrary. —The library will contain, ultimately, every ornithological work of 
merit; British and foreign ornithological periodicals will be taken in, and circu¬ 
lated among such of the members as subscribe an additional half-guinea for this 
advantage. 
Periodical Meetings or Conversaziones will be held for the exhibition of living 
and dead specimens, drawings, books, nests, &c.—for reading ornithological pa¬ 
pers, and for oral observations. 
Lectures. —^Competent ornithologists will be invited to deliver lectures; 
Publications.- —The Society will publish, or patronize the publication of, a ge¬ 
neral ornithological work at an accessible price : the proceedings will be published 
concisely and cheaply; and the Society will collect and publish all the informa¬ 
tion they can obtain as to the best modes of rearing foreign birds adapted for the 
park, the preserve, the poultry-yard, and the aviary. 
Prizes. —A prize of the value of £lo or ^20 will be given annually for the 
best paper on Systematic Ornithology, in elucidation of the power, wisdom, and 
goodness of God. Another, of the value of £10, for the breeding of foreign birds : 
and a third, of the value of £5, for the best method of keeping alive in this coun¬ 
try such foreign birds as will not breed. 
Application will be made to Government for a locality for the Society’s mu¬ 
seum, library, and housed collections : if the application be successful, the mu¬ 
seum will be freely open to the public three days a week. 
The ordinary funds, arising from subscriptions and entrance fees, will in the 
first instance be applied solely to the construction of aviaries, and the purchase, 
rearing, and breeding of birds : and an extraordinary fund will be raised by the 
creation of 100 shares of £25 each (to be paid, if desired, in two half-yearly 
instalments) which will be applied exclusively to the purchase of books, speci¬ 
mens, and cabinets, to lay a broad and solid foundation for a worthy museum 
and library. The property thus acquired will be vested in the shareholders ; 
