Annual General Meeting of the B.O.U. 
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XXL —-Proceedings at the Annual General Meeting of the 
British Ornithologists’ Union , 1911. 
The Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists* 
Union for 1911 was held at the Offices of the Zoological 
Society of London in the Outer Circle, Regent's. Park 
(by permission), on May 10th. The Chair was taken, in the 
unavoidable absence of the President on account of ill- 
health, by P. L. Sclater, D.Sc., F.R.S. 
The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting were 
read and confirmed. 
The Report of the Committee, which was then read, 
announced the continued prosperity of the Union during 
the past year. The Annual Volume of 1 The Ibis * for 1910 
(the fifty-second of the whole and the fourth of the Ninth 
Series) had been edited by P. L. Sclater, D.Sc., P.R.S., and 
Mr. A. H. Evans, M.A. It contained 795 pages and was 
illustrated with 1 photogravure and 9 coloured plates, 
2 maps, and 8 text-figures. 
With much regret the Committee reported the deaths of 
the following Ordinary Members since the last Annual 
Meeting:—Henry Scherren, Capt. G. E. Shelley, Dr. Thomas 
Wright, and Dr. A. B. Meyer (Foreign Member). 
The following gentlemen had resigned :—Lt.-Col. H. F. 
Barclay, W. Ruskin Butterfield, E. H. Chapman, Frederick 
Gillett, Dr. A. Gunther, A. E. Learoyd, H. B. Leigh, Lord 
Lovat, Hon. E. S. Montagu, Heatley Noble, and J. J. 
Baldwin Young; and the names of three members had 
been removed under Rules 6 and 7. 
At the date of the Meeting the Union consisted of 419 
Ordinary Members, 3 Extra-Ordinary, 9 Honorary, 4 Hono¬ 
rary Lady Members, 10 Colonial, and 19 Foreign Members. 
The Statement of Accounts for the year ending December 
31st, 1910, was then submitted and approved, and a vote of 
thanks was accorded to Mr. Henry Munt, the Auditor. 
The Meeting then proceeded to elect the Officers for the 
