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The Cooper Ornithological Club has recently established two permanent 

 committees for the conservation of wild life. The chief objects of the 

 Club in doing this may be stated as follows. (1) To co-operate with other 

 ■organizations, including the State Fish and Game Commissions and the 

 Federal Bureau of Biological Survey, to the end that the wild life yet 

 remaining in state and nation may be more effectively protected. (2) 

 To work at all times for an enlightened public sentiment along lines of the 

 conservation of wild animals. 



Following is the personnel of the committees. For the Northern Division 

 of the Club, W. P. Taylor, Museum Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Chair- 

 man; H. C. Bryant, University of Cahfornia; J. S. Hunter, State Fish and 

 Game Commission, San Francisco; H. W. Carriger, San Francisco; and 

 John W. Mailhard, San Francisco. For the Southern Division, Frank S. 

 Daggett, Director Museum of Science, Arts and History, Los Angeles, 

 ■Chairman; J. Eugene Law, Hollywood; H. J. Lelande, Los Angeles; 

 Howard Robertson, Los Angeles; and G. Willett, Los Angeles. 



Messrs. W. H. Osgood and Malcolm P. Anderson sailed from New 

 Orleans January 27, 1912, for Colon en route for northern Peru where they 

 will cross the Andes into extreme western Brazil. Their object is to collect 

 birds and mammals for the Field Museum of Natural History, but their 

 exact itinerary and time of return will depend upon the conditions that they 

 encounter. 



The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club held its regular annual meeting 

 &i the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia on January 4, 1912. 



The officers elected for the current year are President, Samuel N. Rhoads; 

 Vice-President, Stewardson Brown; Secretary, J. Fletcher Street; Treas- 

 urer, Samuel C. Palmer, Editor of Cassinia, Robert Thomas Moore. 



The Club held fifteen meetings during the year, some of the more im- 

 portant communications being A Trip across Canada, by Wm. E. Roberts; 

 Some Western Birds and their Home Lands, by J. A. G. Rehn; Bird-life 

 about Tampa, Florida, by Robert T. Moore; Birds of Northern Venezuela, 

 by Stewardson Brown; Life in the Heron Rookeries of Central Florida, 

 by O. E. Baynard; Bu-ds of the Tierra Calienti of Ecuador, by S. N. 

 Rhoads; Some Birds of St. Margaret's Bay, N. S., by Dr. Spencer Trotter. 



The Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society announces its dis- 

 continuance with the December 1911 number, completing its thirteenth 

 volume. We are glad to learn however that this action does not involve 

 the dissolution of the society. It has done excellent work in the interest 

 of bird study and bird protection and we trust that its activities may con- 

 tinue. 



"The Game-birds of South Africa" is the title of an important work 

 which Messrs. Witherby & Co. are about to pubUsh. The book is by 



