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Annual General Meeting of the B,0 . U. 
/Secretary, who will bring the names of their Candidates 
before the Committee. The list of Candidates, with their Pro¬ 
posers and Seconders, shall be circulated among the Members 
at least fourteen days before the ballot along with the summonses 
for the General Meeting. 
Mr. Ogilvie-Grant announced that the B.O.U. Expedition 
to New Guinea was now on its way home, and that it had 
reached a height of 5000 feet in the Charles Louis Mountains 
and had made large collections and important discoveries. 
The following two motions, brought forward by the 
Committee, were put to the meeting and carried :— 
“That the Committee consider it desirable that a 
new edition of the Uniou’s List of British Birds be 
prepared, and that a small Special Committee be 
appointed with a view to preparing the same.” 
“ That the following members of the B.O.U. be 
requested to act on the Committee :—The President, 
the Editors, and the Secretary; Mr. W. R. Ogilvie- 
Grant, Mr. H. E. Dresser, Mr. W. Eagle-Clarke, and 
Dr. N. F. Ticehurst ” 
On the motion of Mr. Ogilvie-Grant the following resolu¬ 
tion was carried unanimously and ordered to be communicated 
to the Trustees of the British Museum :— 
“ That in the opinion of the British Ornithologists* 
Union it is essential that the whole of the land sur¬ 
rounding the Natural History Museum should be 
reserved for the extension and expansion of that institu¬ 
tion, for which the land was definitely given to the 
Trustees in 1899, and that it should on no account be 
appropriated or used for any other purpose. They 
trust that the proposal recently brought forward by 
the Office of Works to use this land for other purposes 
may be reconsidered.” 
Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo proposed, and Mr. H. M. 
Wallis seconded, that the Secretary should send a letter to 
