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other duties, to collect the necessary data for a biographical sketch. 
An important part of the duties of the Committee on Biography is 
to assist in the preparation of obituary notices. 
Even more interest attaches to the personal history and work 
of members who are still alive than to those whose labors have been 
completed. In these days of “Who’s Who” and similar bio- 
graphical dictionaries it might seem that facts regarding the 
biography of members were readily accessible, but such proves not 
to be the case. The Committee has, therefore, undertaken the 
preparation of an index of the published biographical sketches of 
members of the Union. This index now contains references to 
sketches of nearly all of the Fellows, about one third of the Members 
and a few of the Associates. Every member of the Union should 
have on file with the Secretary a record of his full name and address 
and a reference to any sketch of his work which may have been 
published. 
Portraits— Portraits of A. O. U. members are published from 
time to time in various places, but are widely scattered and very 
few of them are mentioned in the great index of portraits prepared 
by the American Library Association. As one feature of its work 
the Committee has undertaken an index to published portraits of 
A. O. U. members. This index now contains entries for about 170 
members, 113 of whom are living and 57 deceased. In this list 
are 30 Fellows, 11 Corresponding Fellows, 28 Members, and 34 Asso- 
ciates. The entries in the deceased list are about equally divided 
between Fellows, Honorary Fellows, Corresponding Fellows, and 
Associates. 
Audubon Correspondence.— Many letters of Audubon have been 
published from time to time and a considerable volume of his 
correspondence is now available to the general reader. Mr. Ruth- 
ven Deane who, by reason of his familiarity with Auduboniana, is 
specially qualified for the task has undertaken to prepare a list of 
letters of Audubon which have thus far appeared in print. 
Bibliography.— Bibliographies and indexes form the tools of the 
scientific student and are as essential for his work as a good camera 
to a photographer or a telescope to an astronomer. Attention 
has thus far been concentrated on the preparation of a list of 
author’s bibliographies. In the lists of their papers which have 
