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NOTES AND NEWS. 



'The Auk', beginning with the present number, will be issued by the 

 Union, and not through a publisher, as heretofore. Mr. William Dutcher, 

 Treasurer of the A. O. U., will act as its Business Manager. Hence all 

 correspondence relating to subscriptions, changes of address, advertise- 

 ments, and the sale of any of the publications of the Union, should be 

 addressed to William Dutcher, 525 Manhattan Ave., New York, N. Y. 



At the last meeting of the A. O.U., held in Cambridge, Mass., a Finance 

 Committee was established to take charge, under instructions from the 

 Council, of its business affairs, and especially to provide funds for carry- 

 ing on its publications. This Committee consists of Mr. Ruthven Deane, 

 Chairman, the Treasurer and Secretary of the Union, the Editor of ' The 

 Auk,' and Mr. William Brewster. 



Notice to Contributors. — Complaint has justly been made of the 

 habitual late appearance of ' The Auk,' which has heretofore been issued 

 from one to two or three weeks after the ostensible date of publication, 

 — the first day of the month of date of the respective numbers. Great 

 effort has been made to correct this evil, which is not by any means 

 wholly due to the dilatoriness of either the editors or the printer, except 

 that the former have been too lenient with tardy contributors. It has 

 been customary to receive contributions up to as late as the tenth day 

 of the month preceding the date of publication, and frequently long- 

 promised articles — often also the longest in the number — have not 

 reached the editors until the time had arrived when the whole number 

 should have been in type and 'made up.' 



This is to give notice that in future all ' copy ' for general articles must 

 reach the editors six weeks before the date of their desired appearance, 

 and all contributions to the department of ' General Notes ' and ' Recent 

 Literature ' must be in the editor's hands by the first of the month pre- 

 ceding the date of publication of the number for which such contribu- 

 tions are intended ; otherwise they will be held over for the following 

 issue. In other words, articles intended for the April number should be 

 sent in not later than the middle of February, and minor contributions 

 by the end of the month, and as much earlier, especially in the case of 

 the former, as may be practicable. 



It has been decided to published the lists of Officers and Members 

 of the Union in the October number of 'The Auk' instead of in the 

 January number, as heretofore. In this way it will be possible to give 

 the status of the Union in respect to membership with greater exactness 

 than can be done at the beginning of the year, before all the members- 

 elect have had time to qualify. 



