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officials of all the States and Territories of the United States and the 

 Provinces of Canada, their titles, names, and addresses, and the titles of 

 their official publications. Also a list of all the National and State or- 

 ganizations interested in game and bird protection, with the names and 

 addresses of the president and secretary of each ; and there is a similar 

 list of all the Audubon Societies. 



Still another useful publication is "Poster No. 10, August, 190^," pre- 

 pared by Dr. Palmer and Messrs. Henry Oldvs and R. W. Williams, Jr., 

 and issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (Biological 

 Survey), giving the 'Close Seasons for Game in the United States and 

 Canada, 1905.' 



These publications indicate the activity and up-to-date character of the 

 work of the Game Preservation Division of the Biological Survey, in 

 charge of Dr. Palmer, and give information of the greatest importance 

 and convenience to those interested either in the preservation or pursuit 

 of game, or the protection of birds. — J. A. A. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Walter E. Bryant, a Corresponding Member of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, died in San Francisco, California, May 21, 1905. His 

 place in the history of West Coast ornithology is important by reason of 

 his substantial and accurate contributions to the literature of the subject 

 and the influence of his personality upon other workers. As Mr. Joseph 

 Grinnell has said in another place: "The life histories of many of our 

 remotely restricted species would remain to-day almost wholly unknown 

 if Bryant had not spent lonely months in their study and then composed 

 what he learned in the form in which we find it now so instructive." 

 His explorations brought to light a number of new birds and mammals, 

 some of which bear his name. 



Bryant's first article on natural history appeared in 'Science News' 

 Vol. I, No. 7, 1S78, but "the majority of his published writings appeared 

 from 1887 to 18S9 in the ' Bulletin ' and ' Proceedings ' of the California 

 Academy of Sciences, and from 1890 to 1893 in ' Zoe,' a periodical pub- 

 lished for four years at San Francisco. These seyen years marked the 

 period of Bryant's greatest activity in natural history lines, and the 

 articles resulting from his work evince an evident endeavor to express 

 plainly and accurately whateyer he thought worthy of record. Not that 

 his descriptions and recitals are tiresomelv commonplace, for I have sel- 

 dom read anything more fascinating to a naturalist than the accounts of 

 his experiences while collecting in Lower California, and on Guadelupe 



