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from the two general regions of central and eastern Asia and certain parts 

 of South America. The birds of Daurea, the Amur region, Kamchatka, 

 and Korea are represented by the collections of Dybowski, Godlewski, 

 Jankowski and Kalinowski, and form the basis of Taczanowski's great 

 work 'Fauna ornithologique de la Siberie orientale.' The University 

 Museum also has some of Przewalski's types and Mlokosievicz's birds from 

 the Caucasus, and the Branicki Museum the Barey collections from the 

 Transcaspian region and the Ferghana District of Turkestan. 



From South America the University Museum has the collections of 

 Jelski from Cayenne and Peru, and part of the Stolzmann material from 

 Peru and Ecuador, while the later Stolzmann collections were deposited 

 in the Branicki Museum. These birds formed the basis of Taczanowski's 

 ' Ornithologie du Peron.' Stolzmann's work in Peru was continued by 

 Jean Kalinowski whose collections were worked up by Count von Berlepsch 

 and Stolzmann. The Branicki Museum also contains the birds obtained 

 by Dr. Siemiradski in Argentina and Patagonia and those collected by 

 Count Branicki in Egypt, Tunis and Algeria. 



It appears that upon the approach of the German troops about 300 types 

 and the entire collection of hummingbirds in the University Museum were 

 sent to Russia but what disposition was subsequently made of them is not 

 stated.— T. S. P. 



The activity of ornithologists in working up the birds of Africa is clearly 

 shown by the fact that nearly 1000 new species and subspecies were de- 

 scribed during the decade from 1905 to 1914. In the 'Journal ftir Orni- 

 thologie' for January, 1918, pp. 61-110, Dr. Reichenow has published a 

 list of 979 new forms which have been named since the publication in 1905 

 of his work 'Die Vogel Afrikas.' 



The B. O. II . at its annual meeting honored several American Ornitholo- 

 gists. Dr. L. Stejneger was elected an Honorary Member, Dr. Joseph 

 Grinnell and Mr. Outram Bangs, Foreign Members, and Mr. P. A. Taverner 

 a Colonial Member. Mr. J. H. Fleming is likewise a Colonial Member 

 though his name was accidentally omitted in a list recently published in 

 these columns (Auk, 1918, p. 513). 



Since the death of Dr. F. D. Godman a movement has been inaugurated 

 by the B. O. U. to provide a suitable memorial of the work of Salvin and 

 Godman. While the details of the plan have not yet been received it is 

 understood that the proposed memorial will probably take the form of a 

 gold medal to be given at certain intervals for specially meritorious work 

 in ornithology. 



Egg collecting in California seems to be developing along the lines of 

 "Oological Museums." One of these, the Woodland Heights Museum of 

 Analytical Oology, of which Milton S. Ray is Curator and Rose Carolyn 



