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his health might be benefited. His trouble, however, proved incurable, 

 and he died March 1, 1913, after a particularly sad and lingering illness, 

 mourned by his family and many friends. — Fred H. Kennard. 



The American Society of Mammalogists was organized at Washington, 

 D. C, at a meeting held April 3 and 4, 1919. There was a charter member- 

 ship of over 250, of which 60 were in attendance. 



The following officers were elected: C. Hart Merriam, President; E. W. 

 Nelson, First Vice-President; Wilfred H. Osgood, Second Vice-President; 

 H. H. Lane, Recording Secretary; Hartley H. T. Jackson, Corresponding 

 Secretary; Walter P. Taylor, Treasurer. The Councilors are: Glover M. 

 Allen; R. M. Anderson; J. Grinnell; M. W. Lyon; W. D. Matthew; 

 John C. Merriam; Gerrit S. Miller, Jr.; T. S. Palmer; Edward A. Preble; 

 Witmer Stone; and N. Hollister, Editor. Committees were appointed on: 

 Life Histories of Mammals, C. C. Adams, Chairman; Study of Game Mam- 

 mals, Charles Sheldon, Chairman; Anatomy and Phylogeny, W. K. 

 Gregory, Chairman; and Bibliography, T. S. Palmer, Chairman. 



The policy of the Society will be to devote its attention to the study of 

 mammals in a broad way, including life histories, habits, evolution, pate- 

 ontology, relations to plants and animals, anatomy, and other phases. 

 Publication of the Journal of Mammalogy,' in which popular as well as 

 technical matter will be presented, will start this year. 



The annual dues are three dollars, for which members receive the 

 journal. Anyone qualifying before the next annual meeting will be 

 considered a charter member. 



We learn from 'Science' that the Parliament of Quebec has created the 

 colonies of breeding waterfowl on the shores and islands of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, including the famous Bird Rock and the Gannet rookeries 

 on the cliffs of Bonaventure, into one great preserve to be known as the 

 Gaspe Bird Reserves. 



In a notice in the January 'Auk' Dr. Charles W. Townsend calls for 

 notes of interest on the birds of Essex County, Mass., which may be in- 

 corporated in a supplement to his volume on 'The Birds of Essex County' 

 published in 1905. Unfortunately the notice stated that these notes 

 should be in hand by November 1, 1918, instead of 1919. 



Birds in the Museums of Warsaw. — In the 'Journal fur Ornithologie ' 

 for April, 1918, pp. 286-287, Prof. Neumann has made an interesting state- 

 ment regarding the two important collections of birds in Warsaw, Poland, 

 belonging to the Zoological Museum of the University and the Branicki 

 Museum. 



The nucleus of the University Museum series was a collection made in 

 Silesia by Von Minckwitz in the latter half of the eighteenth and early 

 part of the nineteenth centuries. Both museums are rich in types of birds 



