Vol. XXXVI 



1918 



Notes and News. 381 



Bulletin Charleston Museum, XIV, Nos. 3 and 5, March-May, 1918. 



California Fish and Game, Vol. 4, No. 2, April, 1918. 



Cassinia, Proe. Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 1917. 



Condor, The, XX, Nos. 2, and 3, March-April, May-June, 1918. 



Current Items of Interest, No. 35, February 21, 191S. 



El Hornero, Revista de la Sociedad Ornitologica del Plata, Tomo 1, 

 No. 1, October, 1917. 



Emu, The, XVII, Part 4, April, 1918. 



Fins Feathers and Fur, No. 13, March, 1918. 



Ibis, The, (10), VI, No. 2, April, 1918. 



New Jersey Audubon Bulletin, Nos. 24 and 25, March and May, 1918. 



Oologist, The, XXXV, Nos. 4 and 5 and 6, April- June, 1918. 



Ottawa Naturalist, The, XXXI, Nos. 10 and 11, January and February, 

 1918. 



Philippine Journal of Science, The, XII, Sect. D., Nos. 6, XIII, Nos. 

 1, 2, and 3, November, 1917, January, March and May, 1918. Contents 

 and Index. 



Revue Francaise d'Ornithologie, Nos. 108 and 107, February and March, 

 1918. 



Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Twenty-seventh Annual 

 Report. 



Science, N. S., Nos. 1211-24. 



Scottish Naturalist, The, Nos. 74, 75 76, and 77, February-May, 1918. 



Wilson Bulletin, The, XXX, No. 1, March, 1918. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



We learn from 'The Ibis' of the death, on January 31, 1917, of Prof. Dr. 

 Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch, an original Honorary Fellow of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union. He was born at Warmbrunn in Silesia 

 on October 8, 1839 and published his first contribution to ornithology in 

 1859. 



In 1861 he obtained a position in the Leyden Museum under Schlegel 

 and in 1864 succeeded Hartlaub as curator of the Museum at Bremen. 

 In collaboration with Hartlaub he published two notable ornithological 

 works, 'The Ornithology of Central Polynesia' and 'Die Vogel Ost- 

 Afrikas.' Resigning his position at Bremen in 1878 he engaged in an 

 extensive tour of the South Seas which covered the years 1879-1882. 

 Besides securing extensive and valuable collections he gained an intimate 

 knowledge of the islands with the result that he returned on another expe- 

 dition in 1884-1886 as Imperial Commissioner and through his influence 



