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NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Twenty-first Annual Congress of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union will be held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- 

 phia, beginning on the evening of Monday, November i6, 1903. The 

 evening session will be for the election of officers and members and for 

 the transaction of routine business. Tuesday and the following days the 

 sessions will be for the presentation and discussion of scientific papers, 

 and will be open to the public. Members intending to present commun- 

 ications are requested to forward the titles of their papers to the Secre- 

 tary, Mr. John H. Sage, Portland, Conn., so as to reach him not later 

 than November 13. 



Professor Wilber Clinton Knight, an Associate of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, died at his home at Laramie, Wyoming, July 28, 

 1903, of peritonitis, after an illness of six days. Prof. Knight wasborn 

 at Rochelle, Ills., Dec. 13, 1858. His boyhood days were passed upon the 

 farm where daily communion with Nature exercised a marked influence 

 upon his tastes, which were early indicated by his choice of books and 

 the lines of study he pursued. With his people he moved to Nebraska 

 where he obtained his education, graduating a Bachelor of Science from 

 the State University in 1886. Immediately following his graduation he 

 was appointed Assistant Territorial Geologist for Wyoming, and there- 

 after progress in his profession may be summed up as follows : The year 

 18S7-88, Assayer at Cheyenne ; Superintendent of mines in Colorado 

 and W^-oming, 1888 to 1893; Professor of Mining, University of 

 Wyoming, 1893 and 189^1 ; Professor of Geology, Mining Engineering, 

 Principal of the School of Mines, Geologist of the Wyoming Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, and Curator of University Museum from 1S94 

 to date of his death; State Geologist 189S-99. 



Well earned post graduate degrees of M. A. and Ph. D. were conferred 

 upon Prof. Knight by the University of Nebraska in 1893 and 1901, 

 respectively. 



Numerous publications from his pen, usually in the form of bulletins 

 or magazine articles, have appeared from time to time, the most impor. 

 tant of the former being as follows : Bulletin No. i, 'The Petroleum of 

 the Salt Creek Oil Field, its Technology and Geology,' 1896. Bulletin 

 No. 2, ' The Petroleum Oil Fields of the Shoshone Anticlinal, Geology 

 of the Popo Agie, Lander and Shoshone Oil Fields,' 1897. Bulletin 

 No. 3, 'The Geology of the Oil Fields of Crook and Uinta Counties, 

 Wyo.,' 1899. Bulletin No. 4, 'Geology of the Oil Fields of Natrona 

 County, Excepting Salt Creek.' Bulletin No. 5, 'The Newcastle Oil 

 Fields, Wyo.' Bulletin No. 6, ' The Bonanza, Cottonwood and Douglas 

 Oil Fields," 1903. Bulletin No. 14, 'Geology of the Wyoming Experi- 

 ment Farms,' 1893. Special Bulletin, ' The Sweetwater Mining District.' 



