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Belgiu n, Dr. Dubois ; Denmark, Lieut.-Col. Mehrn ; France, 

 M. Ternier and Dr. Menegaux ; Germany, Baron von Ber- 

 lepsch and Baron von Gebsattel; Great Britain, Lord Avebury 

 and Mr. Buckland ; Holland, Mr. P. van Vollenhoven and 

 Dr. Ritzraa-Bos ; Hungary, Mr. Chernel von Chernelhaza; 

 Italy, Count Arrigoni degli Oddi ; Norway, Oberhofstall- 

 msister Sverdrup ; Russia, Mr. Stoll ; Sweden, Professor 

 Lonnberg; United States, Mr. Dutchcr and Dr. Palmer. 



In Section 5 tbree papers were read; of these that by 

 TIerr Dozent B. Diiringen was important, as it treated the 

 question of poultry-rearing from a scientific point of view. 



On Saturday the 4th of June, after some discussion, 

 it was decided that the next International Ornithological 

 Congress should be held at Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1915, under 

 the Presidency of Herr C. Reiser, of the Bosnian National 

 Museum of Natural History, of which he is the Keeper. 



On the 30th of May the German Ornithological Society 

 arranged a steamboat-excursion from Spandau to the 

 Havelsee and Wannsee, and gave an excellent supper at 

 the Hotel Burgers Hof opposite the Barbelsberg Park. On 

 the 1st of June the city of Berlin gave an entertainment 

 at the Rathaus, which was very fully attended. On the 

 2nd of June the Berlin Zoological Society offered a lunch 

 at the Zoological Gardens to the Members of the Congress, 

 and a supper was also given there on the following evening. 

 Besides these expeditions others were arranged to the Spree- 

 wald, to Baron von Berlepsch's bird-protection station at 

 Schloss Seebach, and to the Kurische Nehrung, under the 

 guidance of Dr. Thienemann. Moreover, all Members of 

 the Congress were offered free admission to the Zoological 

 Gardens during their stay in Berlin. 



It need scarcely be added that the whole proceedings were 

 so well carried out that the Fifth International Ornitho- 

 logical Congress was unanimously pronounced to have been 

 a great success. — H. E. D. 



