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of Grisons). Owing to the great variety and difference in the alti- 
tude of the country covered in these expeditions, it was possible to 
secure large series of specimens of all but a very few of the Formicidze 
known to occur in central and northern Europe and to gain an intimate 
acquaintance with these insects and their parasites and messmates. 
Particularly valuable was the series of observations on the habits and 
development of the singular ant-nest beetle Lomechusa strwmosa ob- 
served in the pine-woods of the Upper Engadine. After spending two 
months in Switzerland, Dr. Wheeler continued his observations at 
Wiirzburg in Bavaria and in the vicinity of Dresden in Saxony. In 
the former locality he was generously assisted in the collection of material 
by Professors Spemann and Lehmann of the University and in the latter 
by Professor Escherich of the Royal Academy of Forestry at Tharandt 
and Mr. H. Viehmeyer of Dresden. ‘The results of Dr. Wheeler’s 
comparative studies of the North American and European ant faunas 
will be published in the Museum ‘ Bulletin.” 
Turspay afternoon, October 29, the National Association cf Audu- 
bon Societies held its annual meeting at the Museum. ‘The meeting 
was largely attended, and, after routine business had been despatched, 
it was addressed by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, Associate Curator of Birds, 
who gave an illustrated account of the “ Home Life of the White Egret.” 
Mr. William Dutcher was re-elected president of the organization. 
THE first Conference of Anglers was held at the Museum Monday 
evening, November 11, under the presidency of Dr. Henry Van Dyke 
of Princeton University, for the purpose of exchanging views, obtaining 
information and uniting more closely and effectively for the protection 
of the game fishes and for the improvement of the sport of angling. 
WEDNESDAY evening, October 30, the Museum, in codperation with 
the New York Academy of Sciences, had the pleasure of offering to its 
members and their friends an illustrated lecture by Professor William 
Bateson of St. John’s College, Cambridge, England. ‘The lecture was 
upon the subject “The Inheritance of Color in Animals and Plants”’ 
and was a popular exposition of the now famous Mendelian Law of 
Heredity. 
