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Ray Librarian, is located at Mr. Ray's home in San Francisco. The material 

 consists of Mr. Ray's collection and some others which he has associated 

 with it. 



Another is the Museum of Comparative Oology of which Mr. W. Leon 

 Dawson is Director and Secretary and Mrs. Etta A. Dawson Cataloguer. 

 This consists chiefly of Mr. Dawson's collection, and that of Mr. F. C. 

 Willard which was secured by donation. Each museum has a board of 

 directors and list of correspondents or visitors, while the latter one has an 

 elaborate system of fellows, patrons, members, collectors, etc., representing 

 eight grades. 



Mr. Dawson has recently issued the first number of the 'Journal' of this 

 Museum, a pamphlet of 35 pages written entirely by himself and consisting 

 of an advertisement of the Museum with an appeal for material and a 

 sketch of the late R. G. Hazard, a trustee of the Museum. It is the hope 

 of the director to secure sufficient funds to erect a museum building at 

 Santa Barbara to house the collection which is now in temporary quarters 

 at his home in that city. 



The 'American Museum Journal,' which under the able editorship of 

 Mary Cynthia Dickerson has developed into one of the most important 

 popular journals of science in America, begins its nineteenth year under 

 the new title 'Natural History.' 



This magazine, published monthly from October to May, is furnished to 

 all members of the American Museum as one of the privileges of mem- 

 bership. It may also be secured at any time by subscription, at $2.00 

 per year. 



The Franklin Book Shop, 920 Walnut St., Philadelphia, announces, 

 'The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania' by John C. French, edited and 

 published by Henry W. Shoemaker; a volume of 257 pages, fully illustrated. 

 Only 500 copies have been printed, and the work is for sale at the above 

 address only; price $4.00. A review will be published in the October 

 'Auk.' 



The Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union will be held in the American Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City, November 11-13, 1919, with a business session of the Fellows and 

 Members on the evening of the 10th. All members of the Society should 

 keep the date in mind and arrange if possible to be present. The scientific 

 sessions of the last annual meeting had to be cancelled owing to the in- 

 fluenza epidemic and only the business session was held, so that there will 

 have been virtually an interim of two years since the last gathering of the 

 Union. The cessation of the war and the return of many members from 

 France will make the coming meeting one of the most noteworthy in the 

 history of the organization. 



