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uel Henshaw, Secretary; L. O. Howard, J. S. Kingsley, E. L. Mark, H. F. 

 Osborn. All inquiries should be addressed to G. H. Parker, Seventh In- 

 ternational Zoological Congress, Cambridge, Mass. 



The annual meeting of the Maine Ornithological Society will be held at 

 the rooms of the Portland Society of Natural History, Portland, Maine, 

 "on Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving day." 



The Twenty-fourth Annual Congress of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union will be held at the U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. O, 

 beginning on the evening of Monday, November 12, 1906. The evening 

 session will be for the election of officers and members, and for the trans- 

 action of routine business, and action on proposed amendments to the 

 By-Laws. Tuesday and the following days of the session will be for the 

 presentation and discussion of scientific papers, and will be open to the 

 public. Members intending to present communications are requested 

 to forward the titles of their papers to the Secretary, Mr. John H. Sage, 

 Portland, Conn., so as to reach him not later than November 10. 



