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Annual Meeting of the B. O. U. 
The number of the Members of the Union was 349, 
consisting of 322 Ordinary, 2 Extraordinary, 9 Honorary, 
and 16 Foreign Members. There were 26 Candidates for the 
Ordinary Membership. 
The Committee was glad to report that the prosperity of 
the Union had continued unabated during the past year. 
The Annual volume of ‘ The Ibis 5 for 1899, forming the 
fifth of the Seventh Series, had been issued in due course. 
It contained 694 pages and 13 plates. 
The Subject-Index to f The Ibis' from 1859 to 1894 (the 
first six Series) bad been printed during the past year, and 
issued to subscribers early in January of the present year. 
It contained 140 pages. 
The Report having been adopted, the accounts for the 
year, which had been audited by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, 
were presented by the Secretary, and approved by the 
Meeting. 
Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe and Mr. E. Hartert were elected 
to represent the B. O. U. at the International Ornithological 
Congress at Paris on June 26th next, and it was arranged 
that a third Member should be selected by the Committee 
for the same purpose. 
The consideration of the appointment of Members to 
represent the B.O.U. at the German Ornithological Society's 
Meeting at Leipzig in October next was left in the hands of 
the Committee. 
Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., was re-elected President, 
and Mr. E. W. Oates Secretary of the Union for the ensuing 
year. Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe was elected a Member of the 
Committee in the place of Mr. A. H. Evans, who had retired 
by rotation. 
It was agreed that a new (Eighth) Series of f The Ibis' 
should be commenced in 1901 with the 43rd volume, and 
that Mr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., and Mr. A. H. Evans should 
be joint Editors. 
The following 26 Candidates were then balloted for and 
declared to be duly elected Ordinary Members of the British 
Ornithologists' Union :—William S. Bruce, Zoological Labo¬ 
ratory, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh : Bernard A. E. Buttress, 
