29.2 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



The Fourth International Ornithological Congress. — The 

 meeting of the Fourth International Ornithological Congress, 

 under the Presidency of Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, will take 

 place, as announced in our last number, in June next, and 

 its office and headquarters will be at the Imperial Institute, 

 South Kensington. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., has 

 graciously accepted the post of Patron, and H.R.H. Ferdinand, 

 of Bulgaria and Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., will be 

 Honorary Presidents. Mr. C. E. Fagan, of the Natural 

 History Museum, South Kensington, has been appointed 

 Treasurer, while Dr. E. J. O. Hartert (Zoological Museum, 

 Tring) and Mr. J. L. Bonhote (Ditton Hall, Cambridge) will 

 act as Secretaries. The General Committee contains the 

 names of many of the best-known Ornithologists throughout 

 the world who are likely to be able to attend the meeting. 



The first meeting of the Congress will be held on Monday, 

 June 12th, at 9 p.m., when there will be an informal reception 

 at the Imperial Institute. A General Meeting will take place 

 next day at 10 a.m., and the five Sections (Systematic Or- 

 nithology, Migration, Biology, Economic Ornithology, and 

 Avicultm-e) will assemble at 3 p.m. on that day. The Sections 

 will meet again at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14th, 

 and in the evening of that day there will be a conversazione 

 at the Natural History Museum. Thursday, June 15th, will 

 be devoted to an excursion to the Zoological Museum at 

 Tring, where the Members will be the guests of the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, M.P. On Friday, June 16th, there will 

 be a General Meeting of the Congress at 10 a.m. In the 

 afternoon the Lord Mayor of London will receive the 

 Ornithologists at the Mansion House, and in the evening the 

 British Ornithologists' Union will entertain them at dinner. 

 On Saturday, June 17th, the Sections will meet in the 

 morning (10 a.m.), and the concluding General Meeting will 

 take place in the afternoon of the same day. 



For the first three days of the following week excursions 

 will be arranged — on Monday (June 19th) to Woburn, on 

 Tuesday (June 20th) to Cambridge, and on Wednesday 

 (June 21st) to Flamborough Head in Yorkshire. 



