conscientious attention to details, which characterizes the first volume. 



The second volume begins with the well known but now nearly extinct 

 Carolina Paraquet and ends with the Boat-tailed Grackle, thus compris- 

 ing the orders Psittaci, Coccyges, Pici, Macrochires, and the families 

 Tyrannidae, Alaudidae, Corvidae, Sturnidae and Icteridae of the Passerine 

 birds. The first volume treated of the Gallinae, Columbae and Raptores. 

 The present volume is hence some hundred pages larger than the first 

 volume. In execution it is, if anything, superior to the first volume. 



The descriptions of eggs are supplemented by seven lithographic 

 plates on which are 201 excellent figures of eggs, all natural size. These 

 alone make a volume of inestimable value to the working ornithologist, 

 and when supplemented as they are, by detailed accounts of habits and 

 haunts and the description of notes and song, form a basis for intelligent 

 field study of characteristics of the birds which it would be impossible 

 for a work of this sort to touch upon. We congratulate Maj. Bendire on 

 the success of his great work, and we congratulate ourselves in having 

 this illustration of the possibilities of aiding our fellow workers in science. 



The Osfrey. November, i8g6. Vol. I, No. 3. The present number 

 fully sustains its high character both in a scientific and literary sense, 

 and in the excellence of the illustrations. It seems certain of success. 



'J'ransactions of the Texas Academy of Science. Vol. I, No. 4, 1895. 

 Contains the following valuable papers : The Law of Hypnotism, R. S. 

 Hyer ; County Roads, Charles Corner ; The Soil of Texas, E. T. Bum- 

 ble ; Genesis o." Certain Ore Veins, W. H, von Streeruwitz ; Bio-geogra- 

 phy of Texas ; C. H. Tyler Townsend. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



An unofficial note from Mr. Fank L. Burns, Judge of Elections, an- 

 nounces the election of the following officers : 



P^-esideut. — R. M. Strong. 



l^ice-President . — Ned HoUister. 



Secretary. — J. E. Dickinson. 



Treasurer. — Lynds Jones. 



Announcement of the members elected to the Executive Council is 

 deferred, on account of a close vote between two members. 



