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PROCEEDINGS, 
The following paper was read :— 
“ Remarks on Australian Birds and their relation to British 
Species.” By Gregory M. Mathews, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
Stuffed specimens and skins of Australian birds, original 
water-colours, and engravings of them, were exhibited by the 
author, who devoted special attention to the twenty-seven species 
which are common both to Australia and England. All these, 
he said, are migrants, and many of them made the wonderful 
journey from Australia to the Arctic regions, a flight of 
12,000 miles, backwards and forwards every year. 
263rd Ordinary Meeting, 17th December, 1907, at St. Albans. 
Dr. John Morison, E.G.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The Rev. Gilbert Davies, B.A., was elected a Member of the 
Society. 
Mr. G. E. Bullen exhibited a case which had recently been 
added to the County Museum containing specimens which he 
had prepared with the object of illustrating the life-history of 
certain orders of marine Invertebrata, including Echinodermata 
(crinoids and holothurians), Crustacea (the spider-crab), 
Mollusca (cephalopods), and Tunicata; also the northern 
stone-crab from Aberdeen, and a ruff, a bird now almost 
extinct in Britain. 
Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited a collection of butterflies from 
Japan and explained their relation to British species. 
The following lecture was delivered :— 
“ Some Insect and Fungus Pests.” By C. T. Gimingham, 
F.I.C. ( Transactions , Vol. XIY, pp. 33-44.) 
The lecture was illustrated by lantern-slides. 
264th Ordinary Meeting, 14th January, 1908, at Watford. 
Gregory M. Mathews, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.TJ., in the 
Chair. 
Mrs. Leon M. Lyon, Thurston Lodge, Bushey, Watford, was 
proposed for membership of the Society. 
The following lecture was delivered :— 
“ The Camera as an aid to the Study of Birds.” By William 
Bickerton, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
The lecture was illustrated by about 120 lantern-slides 
from photographs taken by Mr. Bickerton. 
Mr. Henry Kidner and Mr. Charles Oldham were appointed 
auditors of the Society’g accounts for the year 1907. 
