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Opportunities were afforded for inspecting the collections of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History and the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, where the celebrated Lafresnaye collection of foreign 

 birds is now preserved. Some of the members also examined the 

 interesting collections of Anduboniana and Wilsoniana in the 

 library of the Museum and visited several places of historic interest 

 in Cambridge including the house (still in an excellent state of 

 preservation) where Thomas Nuttall lived, and Mt. Auburn 

 cemetery where Dr. Thomas M. Brewer, Dr. Henry Bryant and 

 Dr. Samuel Cabot are buried. 



The registered attendance of fellows and members was larger 

 than at any previous meeting in Cambridge, the subjects aroused 

 more discussion than usual, and an interesting feature was the 

 number of papers on the birds of foreign countries, including 

 those of northern Canada, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, British Guiana, 

 Peru, Chile, Falkland Islands, China and Africa. 



The next meeting of the Union will be held in New York City, 

 in 1918, at a date to be determined by the local committee. 



