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following officers: President, David Starr Jordan; Vice-Presidents, Prof. 



C. F. Holder and Dr. F. W. D' Evelyn; Secretary, W. Scott Way. This 

 State organization will have supervision of the local Audubon societies, 

 and will cooperate with the National Association of Audubon Societies in 

 the work of bird protection. 



A bequest of $100,000 has been left to the National Association of Audu- 

 bon Societies by the will of the late Albert Willcox of Ne'w York City, who 

 before his death, August 13, 1906, had been a liberal contributor to the funds 

 of the National Association. The Association is thus provided with greatly 

 needed funds for the more vigorous prosecution of its urgent work, and 

 with the nucleus for a permanent endowment. There is need, however, 

 for further increase of funds, and it is to be hoped that other bequests may 

 follow. The present gift is especially opportune. 



The Seventh International Zoological Congress will meet in Boston, 

 Mass., in August or September, 1907, under the presidency of Mr. Alex- 

 ander Agassiz, according to the announcement made in the preliminary 

 notice issued by the Executive Committee, which says further: 



The arrangements for the Seventh Congress are in charge of a committee 

 of the American Society of Zoologists, consisting of Messrs. Alexander 

 Agassiz, chairman; Samuel Henshaw, secretary; W. K. Brooks, H. C. 

 Bumpus, E. G. Conklin, C. B. Davenport, C. H. Eigenmann, L. O. Howard, 



D. S. Jordan, J. S. Kingsley, F. R, Lillie, E. L. Mark, C. S. Minot, T. H. 

 Morgan, H. F. Osborn, G. H. Parker, R. Rathbun, J. Reighard, W. E. 

 Ritter, W. T. Sedgwick, C. W. Stiles, A. E. Verrill, C. O. Whitman, E. B. 

 Wilson, and R. R, Wright. 



The meetings will open in Boston, where the scientific sessions will be 

 held, and from which excursions will be made to Harvard University and 

 to other points of interest. At the close of the Boston meeting the Con- 

 gress will proceed to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, visiting the Station of 

 the United States Bureau of Fisheries, the Marine Biological Laboratory, 

 and the collecting grounds of the adjacent seacoast. The journey to New 

 York will be by sea through Long Island Sound. In New York the Con- 

 gress will be entertained by Columbia University, the American Museum 

 of Natural History, and the New York Zoological Society, and excursions 

 will be made to Yale University, to Princeton University, and to the Car- 

 negie Station for Experimental Evolution. From New York the mem- 

 bers will proceed to Philadelphia and Washington. Tours will be planned 

 to Niagara Falls, to the Great Lakes, Chicago, and the West. It is hoped 

 that arrangements can be made for reduced transportation for members 

 of the Congress on transatlantic lines and on the American routes. 



The first formal circular announcing the preliminary program of the 

 Congress will be issued in October, 1906. 



The Executive Committee is as follows: G. H. Parker, Chairman; Sam- 



