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Japan where he made collections, and as a result of these collections many 

 important additions were made to our avifauna : The Province of Yamato 

 on the island of Hondo in 1876, the Loo Choo Islands in 1886 and 1909, the 

 Seven Islands of Idzu in 1887, and Tsushima in 1891. 



Four Japanese birds bear his name: Dryobates leucotos namiyei Stejneger, 

 1886; Luscinia komadori namiyei (Stejneger), 1886; Chelidon javanica 

 namiyei Stejneger, 1886; and Parus varius namiyei Kuroda, 1918. — 

 Nagamichi Kuroda. 



Merrill Willis Blain, an Associate of the Union from 1910 to 1916, 

 died at his home in Los Angeles, December 26, 1918, in the 25th year of his * 

 age. According to a brief notice in 'The Condor' for May, 1919, he was 

 born at Oceanview, Calif., April 24, 1894, received his early education in 

 San Francisco, and at the time of his death was a third-year student in the 

 Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery. He was an enthusiastic orni- 

 thologist, a member of the Cooper Ornithological Club and the Wilson 

 Ornithological Club, and had a good collection of the birds and eggs of 

 Southern California. — T. S. P. 



Leo Wiley of Palo Verde, Imperial Co., Calif., who was elected an 

 Associate of the Union in 1917, died of pneumonia following an attack of 

 influenza, at Shandon, Calif., October 31, 1918. Mr. Wiley was born at 

 Silverton, Colo., September 20, 1890, and at the time of his death was 28 

 years of age. He was the only son of A. P. Wiley and when four years old 

 lost his mother. At an early age he developed a taste for natural history 

 and when not in school spent much time in the company of his father in the 

 wilds of Colorado and California. After a year with A. E. Colburn, the 

 taxidermist of Los Angeles, he followed the trade of taxidermist at Palo 

 Verde. During the Colorado River Expedition of 1910, Dr. Joseph 

 Grinnell learned of young Wiley's interest in natural history and induced 

 him to report things of interest among the birds of the region. As a result 

 many specimens found their way to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at 

 Berkeley, and some of his observations appeared in the columns of 'The 

 Condor.' Among several notes of interest are his records of the breeding 

 of the White-winged Dove, the Mexican Ground Dove, and Harris' Hawk 

 near Palo Verde. Of the last species four young were found in July, 1916, 

 and a set of three eggs on April 5, 1917. Since his death his collection has 

 been presented by his father to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at 

 Berkeley, Calif., where it will be accessible and permanently preserved. — 

 T. S. P. 



A committee has been formed in England under the chairmanship of 

 Lord Rothschild to establish a memorial to the late Frederick DuCane 

 Godman, in acknowledgment of his lifelong devotion to the interests of 

 natural history. The memorial will take the form, primarily, of a bronze 

 tablet with medallion portraits of Mr. Godman and his friend and colla- 



