Excerpt from A List of British Birds

The first edition of the B. O. U. List was published in 1883. The Editorial Committee consisted of Messrs. H. E. Dresser, F. DnCane Godman, O. Salvin, P. L. Sclater, H. Seebohm, and H. T. Wharton, while Messrs. H. Saunders and R. B. Sharpe were afterwards added.

At the General Meeting of the Union held on May 10, 1911, the following resolutions, proposed by the Committee of the Union, were approved: -

(1) That the Committee consider it desirable that a new edition of the Union's 'List of British Birds' be prepared, and that a small special Committee be appointed with a view to considering the same.

(2) That the following Members of the B. O. U. be requested to act on the Committee: - The President, the Editors of 'The Ibis, ' and the Secretary, Messrs. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, H. E. Dresser, W. Eagle Clarke, and Dr. N. F. Ticehurst.

To these were subsequently added the names of Col. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay, who succeeded Mr. Godman as President in May 1912, Mr. W. L. Sclater, who became Editor of 'The Ibis' in January 1912 in place of Dr. P. L. Sclater and Mr. A. H. Evans, and Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, who succeeded Mr. J. L. Bonhote as Secretary in May 1912.

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