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but the subscription price will remain 50 cents if paid in advance. This 

 rule will apply to members of the Chapter as well as to subscribers. 

 Therefore members who are now in arrears will not receive the first 

 number of the next volume until their assessments are received. The 

 Chapter year closes in March, and therefore igoo assessments are not 

 due until then. 



Our fellow member, Mr. John W. Daniel, Jr., will shortly leave on a 

 special expedition for the Everglades of Florida, with the particular 

 object in view of finding the nesting places of the Carolina Paroquette, 

 Everglade Kite and Ivory-billed Woodpecker. We wish him every suc- 

 cess in extending our knowledge of these rare species. 



ELECTION OF NEW MEMBER. 



Mr. James E. Gaut, Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington. D. C, is received into associate membership. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



N^orth .hnerican Faumt, Xo. 16, by C. Hart Merriam. 



The latest number of our North American Fauna gives the " Results 

 of a biographical survey of Mount Shasta, California," representing the 

 labors of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the division of the Biological 

 Survey, with his assistants, Messrs. Vernon Bailey, Wilfred H. Osgood, 

 Walter K. Fisher, and Richard T. Fisher. Messrs. Henry Gannet, John 

 H. Sage, and others visited the camp during the summer, rendering 

 assistance. 



A charmingly written account of the itinerary of the expedition is 

 followed by a no less charming description of the physical features 

 of Mount Shasta and its environments. The text is further illuminated 

 by five full page plates of mountain scenery, and forty-five figures in the 

 text still further bring before us the picturesqueness of the region and 

 depict the plants and animals inhabiting its slopes. 



A discussion of the life zones makes possible comparisons and contrasts 

 with the Cascade range on the one hand and the Sierras on the other 



