572 Letters, Extracts^ and Notes. [Ibis^ 1921. 



This agreement has been come to principally through the 

 exertions of a small committee consisting of Lord Rotlischild, 

 Sir Sidney Harmer, Dr. Lowe, and representatives of the 

 trade, who iiave had many meetings at the Natural History 

 Museum before they arrived at this compromise, which is 

 apparently agreeable to both parties concerned. 



Personalia. 



We learn that Dr. Erwin Streseniann has been appointed 

 Curator of Birds o£ the Zoological Museum of Berlin, in 

 succession to Dr. Anton Reiehenow who retires, having 

 reached the age of 74. Dr. Reiehenow succeeded Dr. 

 Cabanis in 1892, and had therefore been about thirty yeais 

 in the Berlin Museum. Dr. Stresemann s|)ent some months 

 in England in 1913 working out the collection of birds made 

 during the second Freiburg Moluccan Expedition in which 

 he took part in 1910-1912; during this journey he visited 

 several of the East India Islands, including Bali and Ceram. 

 Since the war he has been working with Dr. HeUmayr in 

 the Museum at Munich. 



Mr. A. de C. Sowerby, ALB.O.U., has recently left 

 England for China, where he will spend the next few years 

 carrying on exi)lorations in the south and west of a biological 

 nature, on behalf of the United States National Museum at 

 Washington. He intends visiting the mountainous areas 

 of Chekiang and Fokien, thence working round to Canton 

 Province and Kwangtung, and visiting Hainan Island. Birds 

 will occupy a special place in his programme, and he hopes 

 to make extensive collections. 



Mr. J. R. Kinghorn of the Australian Museum at Sydney 

 has recently been appointed a first-class assistant in charge 

 of the collection of Birds in that Institution. 



