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1920 



Correspondence. 179 



Bluebird, Nos. 10, 11 and 12, September-November, 1919. (Many 

 popular articles on birds.) 



Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, XV, Nos. 6 and 7, October and 

 November, 1919. 



California Fish and Game, 5, No. 4, October, 1919. (Interesting 

 account of game conditions 35 years ago.) 



Philippine Journal of Science, XIV, Nos. 2, 3, and 4, February. March 

 and April, 1919. (Wild Duck sanctuaries and protection of winter birds.) 



Records of the Australian Museum. XII, No. 11. October 2, 1919. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



International Ornithological Congress. 



To the Fellows and Members op the American Ornithologists' 

 Union : 



The project of holding an international ornithological congress in Amer- 

 ica in the year 1921, has been suggested in ' The Ibis' and was informally 

 discussed at the last meeting of the A. O. U. in New York City. 



That such a plan would meet with the approval of all American orni- 

 thologists is a forgone conclusion. Furthermore it would seem self- 

 evident that it would be impossible to successfully hold a meeting of the 

 A. O. U. and an international gathering in the same year unless they were 

 held in conjunction. 



The usual sequence would bring the 1921 A. O. U. meeting to Phila- 

 delphia and in order to facilitate arrangements for an international congress 

 in that year the under-signed ornithologists of Philadelphia and vicinity 

 desire to state that they stand ready to take entire charge of the local 

 arrangements for such a congress in conjunction with the A. O. U. meeting 

 in 1921, if held at Philadelphia, and they herewith extend a cordial invita- 

 tion to the A. O. U. and to the foreign ornithologists to hold the congress 

 in this city. The authorities of the Academy of Natural Sciences have 

 been consulted and have offered the use of the museum building and 

 lecture hall for the purposes of the congress. Philadelphia with its close 

 association with the work of Bartram, Wilson, Audubon, Cassin and 

 many others of the early American ornithologists offers a particularly 

 suitable place for holding this congress and experience has shown that 

 some of the most successful meetings of the A. O. U. have been held here. 

 While the plans for the congress must of course be arranged by a committee 



