534 Annual General Meeting of the B. 0. U. 
and W. B. Tegetmeier; and the names of C. B. Cory and 
J. C. Hartland had been removed from the List of Members 
under Rule 6. 
At the date of the Meeting the Union consisted of 422 
Ordinary Members,2Extra-Ordinary, 10 Honorary, 8 Colonial, 
and 19 Foreign Members. 
The Committee further reported that a Special Meeting 
in commemoration of the Jubilee of the Founding of the 
Union had been held on December 9th, 1908. Gold Medals, 
struck to commemorate the occasion, had been presented to 
four surviving Original Members, Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, 
Dr. P. L. Sclater, Percy S. Godman, Esq., and Wilfrid H. 
Hudleston, Esq. It was proposed that similar Medals should 
be occasionally given in recognition of any special work in 
ornithology. One of the Medals had also been presented to 
the National Collection of Medals in the British Museum. 
The Jubilee Supplement to ‘The Ibis* for 1908, issued in 
March last, had completed the Jubilee Commemoration. 
It had also been decided at the Jubilee Meeting that an 
ornithological expedition, which was shortly going out to 
explore Central New Guinea, should be undertaken under 
the auspices of the Union. 
The Statement of Accounts for the year ending December 
31st, 1908, was then submitted and approved, and a 
vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Edward Bid well, the 
Auditor. 
Dr. F. G. Penrose and Mr. Edward Bidwell having been 
appointed Scrutineers to superintend the ballot, the Meeting 
proceeded to elect the Officers for the ensuing year, and on 
the conclusion of the ballot it was announced that Dr. F. 
DuCane Godman, F.R.S., had been re-elected President, and 
Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A., F.L.S., Secretary; also that 
Mr. D. Seth-Smith had been elected a Member of the 
Committee in the place of Mr. Frederick Gillett, who had 
retire by rotation. 
The following 17 gentlemen were then balloted for and 
elected Ordinary Members of the Union :—Thomas H. Briggs, 
M.A., F.E.S., Rock House, Lynmouth, N. Devon ; David C. 
