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Ih, pectoralis major. 

 p.l., „ loDgus slip. 

 p.b., „ brevis slip. 

 d.p., deltoides patagialis. 

 e., extensor metacarpi radialis. 



Subdivisions of the hrevis tendon, named by Fiirbringer : y is 

 always most near the humerus, i. e. to the left in the figures; 

 a most near the wrist, i. e. to the right in the figures ; j3 is 

 "^ { median, and usually forms a fan-shaped expansion. 



IX.— Report on the Anniversary Meeting of the Deutsche 

 ornithologische GeseUschaft. By E. Hartert (Delegate 

 of theB.O.U.). 



Those members of our Union who have ever fallen into the 

 hands of the German Ornithological Society during one of 

 their annual gatherings will easily believe me if I say that I 

 was excellently received and with all the honour due to 

 the delegate of the B.O.U., when I arrived in Leipzig on 

 October 5th, 1900, to represent the sister Union at the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the German Society. In fact, it M-as 

 looked upon as a special compliment from our Union that I 

 was selected as the representative, connected, as I am, so 

 closely with the German Society, and so intimate as I have 

 long been with many of its members. 



With the exception of Dr. Otto Herman, of Budapesth, I 

 was the only foreign delegate, but many German Scientific 

 Societies had sent representatives to Leipzig. 



Professor Rudolf Elasius, as President of the Society, 

 opened tlie Meeting officially on October 6tli. 



Herr Hermann Schalow gave au interesting resume of the 

 history of the Society, which consists, in fact, of two former 

 societies, amalgamated since 1875. The older of these had 

 existed since 1815, but at first only as a section of the 

 annual " Naturforscher-Versammlungen." In 1850, how- 

 ever, it was separated as an independent society. Only one 

 of the original founders is still alive, Herr Kunz of Leipzig, 

 who was present on this occasion, and was as active as a man 

 in his best vears. 



