. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. -^\THSOrJ/^ Club Notices 8 1 / Bull. \00\ 121(2) Bulletin of the BRITISH ORNITHOLO. No. 2 Published 15 June 2001 CLUB NOTES The 898th Meeting of the Club was held on Tuesday 16th January 2001 at pm, attended by 29 Members and 10 guests. Members present were: The Rev. GLADWIN (Chairman), Miss H. BAKER, Sir David BANNERMAN Bt., BISHOP, Mrs BRADLEY, CALDER, Cdr CASEMENT RN, Dr CHANDLER, Professor CHEKE, DICKINSON, EM. GAUNTLETT, A. GIBBS, D. GRIFFIN, K. HERON, HUME, JOBLING, Dr
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. -^\THSOrJ/^ Club Notices 8 1 / Bull. \00\ 121(2) Bulletin of the BRITISH ORNITHOLO. No. 2 Published 15 June 2001 CLUB NOTES The 898th Meeting of the Club was held on Tuesday 16th January 2001 at pm, attended by 29 Members and 10 guests. Members present were: The Rev. GLADWIN (Chairman), Miss H. BAKER, Sir David BANNERMAN Bt., BISHOP, Mrs BRADLEY, CALDER, Cdr CASEMENT RN, Dr CHANDLER, Professor CHEKE, DICKINSON, EM. GAUNTLETT, A. GIBBS, D. GRIFFIN, K. HERON, HUME, JOBLING, Dr MANN, MONTIER, Mrs MOORE, Mrs MULLER, Professor PIPER, PVtiS-JONES(Speaker), REDMAN, SALAMAN, SELLAR, STATHAM, STONE, STOREY and M. WALTERS. Guests attending were: Lady BANNERMAN, Ms G. BONHAM, Mrs CALDER, Mrs CASEMENT, Mrs GAUNTLETT, Mrs GLADWIN, S. LOWE, Mrs M. MONTIER, MOORE and Mrs W SPERRING. The programmed talk on Cambodia by Frank Steinheimer had been cancelled, due to the speaker's illness with malaria, but Dr Prys-Jones gave a presentation under the title "The bird collection of Richard Meinertzhagen: fraud, its detection and some happy endings" The following is a brief synopsis: The bird collection of the "soldier, scientist and spy" Richard Meinertzhagen, largely held by The Natural History Museum, comprises over 20,000 specimens and was long regarded as of exceptional importance. However, over the past decade it has become increasingly clear that much of it was fraudulently acquired and is fraudulently labelled. Robert traced the slow and difficult path from initial suspicion to a reasonable level of proof, and described the techniques by which the latter has been achieved. He showed how in some cases this detailed research is enabling original data to be restored to specimens with a high degree of confidence. The rediscovery of the Forest Owlet Het
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