536 Annual General Meeting of the B. O. U. 
The Meeting then proceeded to elect the Officers for the 
ensuing year, and 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. 
Edward Bidwell had been elected a Member of the Com¬ 
mittee in the place of Mr. Ernest Gibson, who had retired 
by rotation. 
The following thirteen gentlemen were then balloted for 
and elected Ordinary Members of the Union Lt.-Col. 
Hubert F. Barclay, Dursley, St. Albans; Harry Beeston, 
Sunnymead, South Street, Havant; The Lord Brabourne, 
19 Curzon Street, W. ; Charles Chubb, British Museum 
(Nat. Hist.), Cromwell Road, S.W. ; Charles P. Conigrave, 
F.R.G.S., W. Australian Museum, Perth, W. Australia; 
Cecil Boden Kloss, F.Z.S., F.R.A.I., Curator of the Perak 
State Museum, Taiping, Federated Malay States; T. Hastings 
Lees, M.A., 4 Osnaburgh Terrace, RegenPs Park, N.W. ; 
Herbert W. Murray, The Old House, Epsom; Sir Arthur 
W. Rucker, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., 75 Victoria Stieet, 
S.W.; Harold Russell, F.Z.S., 16 Beaufort Gardens, S.W.; 
Edward F Stanford, Cumberland House, Kensington Court, 
W.; Herbert Stevens, North Lakhimpur P.O., Upper 
Assam, India; Dr. Robert A. Logan van Someren, Uganda 
Medical Staff, Kyetumi, Uganda. 
The following four ladies were elected Honorary Lady 
Members :—H.G. The Duchess of Bedford, F.Z.S., Woburn 
Abbey, Woburn, Beds.; Miss Dorothea M. A. Bate, Wyseby, 
Ecclefechan, N.B.; Mrs. Margaretta Louisa Lemon, F.Z.S., 
Hillcrest, Redhill, Surrey; Miss Emma Louisa Turner, 
F.Z.S., Upper Birchetts, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells. 
Mr. James H. Fleming, of Toronto, was elected a Colonial 
Member of the Union. 
Dr. Sclater then moved the following resolution, which 
was seconded by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant and unanimously 
agreed to :— 
“ That the Members of the British Ornithologists' 
Union have received with great grief the news of the 
death of their fellow-Member, Mr. Boyd Alexander, 
