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their first meeting, and have, we believe, decided on a plan of 

 action. They vt^ill, however, be glad to receive suggestions 

 from any member of the B. O. U., or other ornithologist, 

 which may be addressed to the Secretary of the B. O. U. 

 at 6 Tenterden Street. 



Dresser's ' Birds of Europe.' — So many ornithologists are 

 interested in this important work, that we are pleased to be 

 able to give the following particulars concerning the pros- 

 pects of its completion. Sixty-six parts have been issued 

 up to the present time, and parts 67 and 68 are ready, all 

 but the plates. It will take about six more parts to com- 

 plete the work, and these will (barring accidents) be issued 

 before the close of the year. Mr. Wolf has contributed 

 several sketches, and Mr. Neale a few; and these, with 

 what Mr. Keulemans has lately done, will, it is believed^ 

 keep the illustrations going. When the regular numbers 

 are finished, there will still remain the introduction, general 

 index, &c., together with a small supplement to correct 

 errors and add additional information lately received. This, 

 which it will take several months to prepare, it is pur- 

 posed to issue in a thin volume, which will be so far useful 

 that it will be available as an index, without having to take 

 down every volume when hunting for a reference. In the 

 meanwhile, the main portion of the work can be arranged and 

 bound according to the instructions which will be issued 

 with the last part. 



The Dyke-Road Museum, Brighton. — No naturalist who 

 goes to Brighton should omit to visit Mr. E. T. Booth's new 

 museum in the Dyke Road. It contains a series of about 300 

 cases of British birds. Each species is placed in a separate 

 case, and the specimens (male, female, young, and often nest 

 and eggs) are arranged in what the owner considers to be their 

 natural attitudes, with imitations of appropriate scenery in the 

 background, often copied from the actual spot in which the 

 specimens themselves were procured. The most wonderful 



