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all now Fellows; Mrs. Bailey, Butler, Gault, S. N. Rhoads, and Rives, 

 Members and, W. F. Hendrickson, A. M. Ingersoll, W. H. Fox, C. B. Riker, 

 H. M. Sage and C. W. Chamberlain, Associates. 



In 1888 there were elected: W. L. Baily and H. L. Clark, now Members, 

 and J. M. Edson, G. F. Morcom, A. G. Paine, L. B. Woodruff, and J. 

 Barnard. 



These constitute the fifty-seven members of the A. O. U. of longest stand- 

 ing. There are several members on the list at present who were elected 

 during the above period but who dropped out for a number of years and 

 were later reelected. 



The results of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918 are being 

 published rapidly by the Government at Ottawa. So far the only one 

 relating at all to birds is that on the bird parasites (Mallophaga) of which 

 twenty species were obtained. Dr. Anderson upon whom devolves the 

 editing of the whole series, is hard at work upon his own reports on the 

 Mammals and Birds and hopes to get them out during the coming year. 



We learn from the first number of 'The South Africal Journal of Natural 

 History,' that the South African Ornithologists' Union and the Transvaal 

 Biological Society, have amalgamated to form the South African Biologi- 

 cal Society, by which body the journal is published. An historical account 

 of the former of the parent societies states that it was organized on April 8, 

 1904, with Mr. W. L. Sclater, then resident in South Africa, as the first 

 president. Twenty-two numbers of the 'Journal of the South African 

 Ornithologists' Union' and three numbers of the 'Bulletin' were published 

 under the editorship, first of Mr. J. Bucknill and later of Mr. A. K. Haagner, 

 to whose suggestion was originally due the organization of the Union. 



The present combination seems to promise greater strength and more 

 regular publication and we look forward to many valuable ornithological 

 papers in the new 'Journal.' 



The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club tendered a dinner to Mr. 

 William Lutley Sclater at Philadelphia, on the evening of December 11, 

 1919, in which forty-five members participated. Mr. Sclater gave an 

 interesting account of a former visit to the city with his father in 1884. 

 Dr. Spencer Trotter spoke of his early association with the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, and his meetings there with Mr. Henry Seebohm and 

 Dr. Elliott Coues. Dr. Cornelius Weygandt spoke of the love of bird study 

 as the common heritage of the English speaking people, and other addresses 

 were made by Dr. Wm. E. Hughes and Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads, while Mr. 

 W. L. Baily exhibited some excellent lantern slides of local bird life. 



The occasion was of further interest as it marked the thirtieth anni- 

 versary of the founding of the Club. 



The publishers of Dr. Ernst Hartert's work 'Die Vogel der palaarkti- 

 schen Fauna,' Messrs. R. Friedlander & Sohn, 11 Karlstrasse, Berlin 



