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Gun Club and the Providence Fish and Game Association and did good 

 work in behalf of the protection of wild life. For several years he served 

 as secretary of the Rhode Island Bird Commission and from 1905 to 1908 

 was Bird Commissioner for Providence County and Chairman of the 

 Board. 



He is survived by a sister, Josephine A., and three brothers, Edward J., 

 Thomas L., and Dr. William F. Flanagan. 1 — T. S. P. 



Robert Lenox Maitland, an Associate of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union since 1889, died at his home in New Rochelle, N. Y., on 

 March 11, 1920, in his 66th year. Mr. Maitland was born in New York 

 City, December 16, 1854, and was the son of Robert Lenox Maitland, 

 a New York merchant, and a nephew of James Lenox, founder of the 

 Lenox Library. He entered his father's office on Broad Street, and later 

 became a partner in the commission firm of Robert Maitland & Co. He 

 afterwards retired and devoted his entire time to charitable and other 

 interests, serving on various boards and committees. Mr. Maitland 

 was unusually modest and never sought prominence, but devoted him- 

 self earnestly to whatever he was engaged in. Although he does not 

 appear to have published on birds his interest in the subject is attested 

 by the fact that he maintained his membership in the Union for 30 years. — 

 T. S. P. 



A biography of Thure Ludwig Theodor Kumlien of Wisconsin, who 

 died in 1888, is in course of preparation by Mr. Publius V. Lawson of 

 Menasha, Wis. The paper will be illustrated and will probably be pub- 

 lished by the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. 



The Government publications on birds now in press, winch will prob- 

 ably be issued at an early date, include the second part of Bent's 'Life 

 Histories' on Gulls and Terns, and a report by H. S. Swarth on the 'Birds 

 of the Papago Saguaro National Monument, Arizona.' The former is a 

 bulletin of the U. S. National Museum and the latter a publication of 

 the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior. 



The close of the twentieth year of the new century recalls the fact that 

 the 20th Century has already witnessed great progress in ornithology, 

 as well as in other branches of science, but it is difficult to determine the 

 accomplishments of any particular year. It has been the custom for 

 some time for the president of the British Ornithologists' Club to review 

 the events of the preceding year at the annual meeting of the Club 



1 A sketch of Mr. Flanagan's life from which these facts were mainly derived 

 appeared in the 'Providence Evening Bulletin' of February 24, 1920, and was 

 republished with bis portrait in 'The Oologist," XXXVII, p. 42, April 1, 1920. 



