48 Occa/ioind Xofrs. 



Herr Svotozar, on tlie Sj)arrow and its Economic Value ; 

 Dr. Helm on the Autumnal Mi<:^ration of the Starling ; and 

 Dr. Dwight on the ^Significance of Sequence in Moults and 

 Plumages. 



At the conclusion of the Sectional Meetings it was decided 

 that the next Congress should be held in Berlin, under the 

 Presidency of Prof, Dr. Reichenow, or if found impossible to 

 carry out the proposal, then at Brussels with Dr. Alphonse 

 Dubois as President. 



On Monday 19th, Woburn Park, the seat of the Duke of 

 Bedford, was visited, and his Zoological Gardens inspected. 

 On the 20th, Cambridge was the objective of an excursion, the 

 visitors being entertained at luncheon at Magdalene College. 

 On Wednesday, the 21st, the well-known Bird Cliffs at 

 Flamborough and Bempton in Yorkshire were seen, and the 

 cliff-climbers, who collect a rich harvest of the eggs of the 

 Guillemot and Razorbill, observed at work. 



With these three semi-official visits was terminated a most 

 successful meeting. It is impossible within the limits of these 

 columns, and difficult in the face of the production of so much 

 brilliant, interesting, and instructive information made public 

 at this memorable gathering, to refer at any length to the 

 more salient features of the papers which attracted the 

 greatest attention. Perhaps, however, mention may be made 

 of Mr. Pycraft's suggestive lecture, which indicated that all 

 birds were primarily arboreal and nidifugous, that these 

 primary habits had modified in the course of evolution in 

 two marked lines, the young of the arboreal nesting birds 

 becoming more and more helpless, whilst the young of the 

 non-arboreal ground-nesting birds become similarly more and 

 more independent immediately after leaving the shell of the 



ecror. 



Mr. Chapman's remarks on the value of a Museum 

 Collection of Birds is also well worth study, the maximum 

 of adeepuite public exhibition, coupled with the greatest 

 facility for work and research by students, being the ideal of 

 the objects which should be aimed at by the controllers of 

 any Natural History Institution. Mr. Seth-Smith's paper 



