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to have it completed early in the year. Some of the results of the 

 work of the Committee have appeared in the October 'Auk' in 

 Richmond's account of Forster's Edition of Le Vaillant's 'Oiseaux 

 d'Afrique,' Stone's article on 'Jacob Post Giraud, Jr., and his 

 Works', and the list of graves of prominent ornithologists. 



From the friends of William Brewster, the Union received a check 

 for $5200 for a fund to be known as the William Brewster Memorial. 

 This fund will be invested and beginning in 1921, the income will 

 be awarded once in two years, " in the form of a medal and an 

 honorarium to the author of the most important contribution to 

 the ornithology of the Western Hemisphere, during the period 

 named." 



Resolutions were adopted expressing the thanks of the Union 

 to the President and Trustees of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, to the officers of the Linnaean Society, to the Explorers' 

 Club, and to the Director and Members of the Executive Committee 

 of the New York Zoological Society for the various courtesies ex- 

 tended during the 37th meeting of the Union. 



Public Meetings. The meetings devoted to the presentation 

 and discussion of scientific papers occupied three full days, Novem- 

 ber 11, 12 and 13, from 10.30 A. M. to 5.30 P. M., with an hour or 

 more intermission for luncheon. The program, given in detail 

 elsewhere, included 40 papers on a wide range of topics. Consider- 

 able discussion developed on some of the subjects, but even with 

 long sessions the time was insufficient and several papers were 

 necessarily read by title. 



The opening papers each morning were reminiscent in character. 

 On Tuesday and Wednesday were presented the memorial addresses 

 on Lyman Belding and William Brewster and on Thursday a series 

 of three very interesting accounts of the birds observed in France 

 by Messrs. Griscom, Sanborn and Harper. Mr. S. P. Baldwin's 

 paper on 'Bird Banding by Means of Systematic Trapping' was a 

 most original and interesting contribution and elicited consider- 

 able discussion. From experiments extending over several years 

 at Cleveland, O., and Thomas ville, Ga., he found that certain 

 birds seemed to develop the 'trap habit' and the same bird would 

 enter a trap so often in search of food that it spent much of its 

 time inside the trap. At Thomas ville, Ga., the same individual 



