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New Work on the Structure of Birds. — ]\Ir. Beddard's work 

 on tlie Anatomy, Osteology, and Pterylography of Birds, on 

 whicli he has been engaged for several years, is now in the 

 printer's hands, and is expected to be ready for publication 

 in the course of the summer. It embraces not only his 

 own observations, but many of the results arrived at by 

 Garrod and Forbes — his predecessors in the Prosectorship of 

 the Zoological Society of London, who both devoted much 

 time and attention to this subject. Messrs. Longmans are 

 the publishers of the work. 



The Collection of BircW-eygs at the British Museum. — We 

 are pleased to be able to announce that Mr. Eugene W. Oates 

 has undertaken to complete the arrangement of the eggs in 

 the Collection of the British Museum and to prepare a 

 catalogue of them, and has already commenced the work. 

 The late Mr. Seebohm devoted much time and attention to 

 this enormous collection, which was brought into working- 

 order under his superintendence, but he did not live to 

 complete the task. A valuable addition is the collection of 

 Chilian eggs belonging to the late Mr. H. Berkeley James, 

 which has been recently presented to the British Museum 

 by Mrs. James. 



International Ornithological Exhibition. — We are requested 

 by the Foreign Office to inform the Members of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union that an International Ornithological 

 Exhibition will be held at St. Petersburg in the course of 

 the current year. Programmes of the Exhibition will be 

 published in the Monthly Journal of the Board of Trade as 

 soon as they are received. 



Publications relating to British Birds.— Mr. W. Ruskiu 

 Butterfield requests us to state that he has been intrusted 

 by Dr. Elliott Cones with the completion of the ' List of 

 Faunal Publications relating to British Birds.^ (See Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. ii. pp. 359-477.) 



