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and consistently adhere to them, in entire disregard of the verbal 

 innovations of purists or grammarians, who, aiming at classical 

 correctness in names, have too often brought about instability and 

 confusion." 



SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE AMERICAN 

 ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



The Sixteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union convened in Washington, D. C, Monday evening, Novem- 

 ber 14, 1898, the business meeting being held at the Army 

 Medical Museum. The public sessions, commencing Tuesday, 

 November 15, and lasting three days, were held at the U. S. 

 National Museum, the Central High School, and at the Cosmos 

 Club. 



Business Session. — The meeting was called to order by 

 Vice-President Dr. C. Hart Merriam, in the absence of the Presi- 

 dent, Mr. William Brewster. Seventeen active members were 

 present. The Secretary's report gave the membership of the 

 Union at the opening of the present Congress as 695, constituted 

 as follows: Active, 47; Honorary, 17; Corresponding, 66 ; 

 Associate, 565. 



During the year the Union lost sixty-four members — six by 

 death, twenty-one by resignation, and thirty-seven were dropped 

 for non-payment of dues. The members lost by death were 

 Osbert Salvin, 1 an Honorary Member, who died at Hawksfold, 

 near Haslemere, England, June 1, 1898, aged 63 years; Dr. 

 Anders Johan Malmgren, 2 a Corresponding Member, who died in 

 Helsingfors, Finland, April 12, 1897, at the age of 63 ; and Dr. 

 Felix Georg Herman August Mojsisovics von Mojsvar, 3 also a 



1 For an obituary notice, see Auk, XV, pp. 343-345. 



2 For an obituary notice, see Ibid, pp. 214-215. 



3 For an obituary notice, see Ibid, p. 215. 



