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They proved of great interest, and it is hoped that such exhibi- 

 tions will become a permanent feature of the annual meetings. 



Resolutions were adopted tendering the thanks of the Union to 

 the President and Trustees of the American Museum of Natural 

 History for the courtesies extended to the Union ; and to the 

 Linnccan Society of New York for their hospitality shown to the 

 Members during the Ninth Congress. 



Through the kindness of Mr. D. G. Elliot, a selected series of 

 drawings", by Wolf of London, were exhibited in the Library 

 of the^Museum during the session, these drawings being the 

 originals of Mr. Elliot's 'Birds of North America,' and ot his 

 Monoo-raphs of the Grouse, Pheasants, etc. 



It w^is voted that the Tenth Congress of the Union should be 

 held in Washington, D. C, Nov. 15, 1S93. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The New Nuttall.* Thomas Nuttall's 'Manual of the Ornithology of 

 the United States and Canada,' originally published in two volumes in 

 iSvand 1834, with a second edition of the first volume (Land Birds) 

 in 1840, was a work so charmingly written and so true to nature that 

 it has never ceased to win admiration and serve as an inspiration to bird 

 lovers While Nuttall was not deeply versed in the technicahties of 

 ornithology, his bird biographies display a profound sympathy with 

 his subject, and an intimate acquaintance with the ways of his beloved 

 feathered associates of field and wood, acquired through a long period of 

 varied and widelv extended field experience, during his expeditions as a 

 botanist and explorer to distant and then little known parts of the United 

 States In addition to his love of bird life and his keen powers of obser- 

 vation, he had the literarv gift to portray in a simple yet fascinating way 

 what he saw and heard, without being unduly sentimental or lapsing into 

 exaggeration. In this rests the charm of Nuttall's 'Manual, the republi- 

 cation of which has been till now delayed, though often seriously con- 

 templated during the many years since it has pract ically been out of 



Based on Nuttall's Manual. | By Montague Chamberlain. | [Vignette] Vol. I | The 

 Land Birds I [Vol.11. GaJe and Water Birds.] Boston : | Little. Brown and Com- 

 pany f Sx. 2 vols. 8V0. pp. i-xlviii. :-473. i-iii, x-431, with . colored plates and 

 numerous illustrations in the text. 



