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South Africa, about the middle of August. The expedition, which is un- 

 der the direction of Edmund Heller, will devote special attention to making 

 moving pictures. Mr. H. C. Raven, who returned recently from Celebes, 

 will collect birds and mammals. After working in the vicinity of Cape 

 Town, the party will proceed northward to the Falls of the Zambesi and 

 Rhodesia. 



According to the July 'Ibis,' two Foreign Fellows of the Union are in 

 Spain this summer. Dr. Ernest Hartert is collecting on the mainland and 

 Mr. H. F. Witherby is working on the Balearic Islands. 



Mr. H. S. Swarth and Mr. Joseph Dixon have been working this summer 

 in southeastern Alaska in the interests of the Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology. They left Berkeley in May, expecting to be absent about four 

 months. Their route lies in the vicinity of Wrangel and extends up the 

 Stikine River into the interior, in the vicinity of Telegraph Creek. 



From the July 'Condor' we learn that A. B. Howell has been touring 

 northern California and Oregon, visiting the type localities of certain birds 

 and mammals; H. G. White and Richard M. Hunt are collecting in the 

 Santa Lucia Mountains in southern Monterey County, Calif., for the 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology; and Lawrence Huey has been in the field 

 in the northern Sierra Nevada in the interests of Donald R. Dickey. 



The Denver Museum has had a party in southern Louisiana this sum- 

 mer, obtaining material for several habitat groups from some of the bird 

 colonies on the coast. 



The Fifth Oological Dinner in London was announced for September 

 10. This dinner, to which naturalists interested in Oology, whether 

 members of the B. O. U. or not are invited, has become a regular annual 

 meeting in September. Its objects are "to furnish opportunities of dis- 

 cussing Oology, exhibiting rare eggs and generally stimulating investiga- 

 tion in the branch of science." An exhibit of the eggs of Warblers was the 

 feature of the meeting this year. 



The editor of 'The Auk' was engaged in field work in the Chiricahua 

 Mountains, Arizona, from May 19 to August 1, at the hospitable camp 

 established there by J. Eugene Law, Business Manager of 'The Condor.' 

 His absence necessitated the printing of the July 'Auk' before he left 

 Philadelphia, and will account for certain delays in publishing and acknowl- 

 edging contributions. 



Members intending to present papers at the next annual meeting, to be 

 held in New York City, November 11-13, are requested to notify the 

 Secretary before November 5 as to the titles of their communications and 



