242 Notes and News. ‘Sn 
Tue Annual Meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club was 
held on January 4, 1917, at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 
The election of officers for the present year resulted in the choice of Henry 
W. Fowler, president; George H. Stuart 3rd, vice-president; J. Fletcher 
Street, secretary; Dr. Samuel C. Palmer, treasurer and Dr. Spencer 
Trotter, editor of ‘Cassinia.’ The Club held fifteen meetings during 1916, 
which were well attended, as were the field trips conducted during the 
spring. 
THOSE who have on so many occasions derived pleasure from the bird 
portraits that have appeared from the brush of Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes 
have now the additional pleasure of seeing what he has been able to do 
with the larger mammals of North America. 
Fifty of his paintings have been reproduced in colors in the ‘National 
Geographic Magazine’ for November, 1916, with text by Mr. E. W. 
Nelson, chief of the U.S. Biological Survey. Mr. Fuertes’ success with the 
mammals is quite as striking as with the birds and we are glad to learn that 
a series of the smaller species is to follow. The ‘National Geographic 
-Magazine’ has again done a splendid piece of educational work in making 
this series of pictures available to the public at large. 
WokrkK in ornithology will be offered again this coming summer at the 
University of Michigan summer biological station in northern Michigan, 
under the direction of Professor R. M. Strong. There will be a general 
course devoted to identification work, primarily, and research for properly 
qualified students. The station is located in wild country where a number 
of northern species breed. Further information may be obtained from 
Dr. George R. La Rue, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
THE well known and old established natural history monthly, ‘The 
Zoologist,’ having been acquired by Messrs. Witherby & Co., will in future 
be incorporated with the illustrated monthly magazine, ‘British Birds’, 
published by the same firm at 326, High Holborn, London, England. 
Messrs. WITHERBY & Co., have been appointed European Agents for 
the ‘Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam.” The work is 
illustrated with plates and figures, and deals with all branches of the Natural 
History of that Country. 
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