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records for his state including the breeding of the Hudsonian Chickadee. 

 Each year many an ornithologist journeyed to his hospitable home and 

 time will never erase the grateful memory of those visits. 



Besides his association with the A. O. U. he was a member of the Cooper 

 Ornithological Club and the Maine Ornithological Society. — H. T. 



Dr. Fredericus Anna Jentink, director of the Leyden Museum and 

 well known as a writer on mammals, especially on those of the Malay 

 and Papuan Islands, died on November 4, 1913, in his sixty-ninth year. 

 He was well known to ornithologists as editor of 'Notes from the Leyden 

 Museum.' 



Dr. .J. W. B. Gunning, president of the South African Ornithologists' 

 Union and director of the Transvaal Museum and Zoological Gardens, 

 died in Pretoria, June 23, 1913. Dr. Gunning was born at Helversum, 

 Holland, September 3, 1860, and came to South Africa in 1884, practicing 

 medicine in the Cape Colony until 1892 when he was appointed director 

 of the newly formed museum at Pretoria. It was largely through his efforts 

 that the Zoological Garden was established and he was also active in 

 founding the S. A. Ornithologists' Union. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer furnishes the following summary of Bird Protective 

 Legislation for 1913, in continuance of his report in 'The Auk' for April, 

 1913, p. 321. 



Now that the legislative record is closed a hasty review reveals the fact 

 that about 200 new game laws were enacted during the year. While the 

 number of statutes is less than that in 1911, the importance of the legisla- 

 tion is probably greater than that of any previous year. Of chief interest 

 are the three Federal laws regulating protection of migratory birds, pro- 

 hibiting importation of plumage, and the Senate Resolution authorizing 

 treaties for the protection of birds with foreign Governments. 



The migratory bird law was approved on March 4 and the regulations 

 for carrying it into effect were duly prepared by a Committee consisting 

 of T. S. Palmer, A. K. Fisher, and W. W. Cooke. These regulations were 

 pubUshed on June 23, were later revised and adopted by the Department, 

 and took effect when approved by the President on October 1. A begin- 

 ning has been made in the herculean task of carrying the regulations into 

 «ffect. The country has been divided into 13 districts and the organiza- 

 tion of the field force in about half of these districts is now under way. 

 On account of the small appropriation for enforcement, the main reliance 

 is upon cooperation with State officials. Each district is in charge of an 

 experienced Inspector appointed by the Department and from three to 

 seven wardens are appointed by the Department on recommendation of 

 the respective game commissioners for cooperative work from each of the 

 States. This arrangement will provide a skeleton force of about 200 or 

 250 men distributed among the various States. A Chief Warden, six 

 Inspectors and about 75 Wardens are already in the field. The work 

 naturally differs in the various districts. In the one comprising the Middle 



