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Peninsula. In 1S55 he was called to St. Petersburg by the Russian 

 Geographical Society to join Schwartz's expedition to Amoorland, where 

 he spent four years in exploration, the results of which were published 

 in his well-known ' Reisen im Siiden von Ost Sibirien,' in several quarto 

 volumes with numerous plates, by the Russian Geographical Society in 

 1862-63. The second volume, entitled ' Die Festlands-Ornis des 

 Stidostlichen Siberiens,' is his most important ornithological publication, 

 and through which he is well known to ornithologists. In 1864 "he 

 took up his residence at Tiflis, where he founded a Natural History 

 Museum and Library and remained actively engaged in their administra- 

 tion and on various kindred pursuits up to the time of his death. Next 

 to the Siberian volume, Radde's ' Ornis Caucasica,' published at Cassel 

 in 1884, is the one amongst his numerous scientific works and memoirs, 

 illusti-ative of the Natural History of the Caucasus and 01 adjoining por- 

 tions of the Russian dominions, by which he is best known to ornithol- 

 ogists." He was throughout his life an ardent traveller, and in recent 

 years made voyages to Japan, India, and North Africa, with members of 

 the Imperial family, with whom he seems to have been a favorite. "At 

 the time of his death he was engaged in the preparation of an account 

 of the collections of the Caucasian Museum, of which three volumes (out 

 of six) have already appeared." 



The Annual meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union was held 

 at the meeting-room of the Zoological Society of London on the evening 

 of May 13. Dr. F. DuCane Godman was reelected President and Mr. 

 Howard Saunders Secretary. Twenty new Ordinary' Members were 

 elected, and Capt. F. W. Hutton, F. R. S., Col. W. Vincent Legge, F. Z. 

 S., and Alfred J. North, were elected Colonial Members, and Dr. Giacinto 

 Martorelli, of Milan, a Foreign Member. Mr. Robert Ridgway was 

 transferred from the list of Foreign Members to that of Honorary Mem- 

 bers — the only American on whom has been conferred this honor since 

 the decease of Professor Baird. In this connection it may be mentioned 

 that Mr. Frank M. Chapman was elected a Foreign Member at the annual 

 meeting in 1902. 



Major Edgar A. Mearns, Medical Department U. S. Army, was 

 ordered to the Philippines some months since, and sailed from San 

 Francisco for his new post of duty about the end of last June. 



Dr. Charles C. Adams, curator of the University of Michigan 

 Museum at Ann Arbor, has announced, in a recent number of 'Science' 

 (Aug. 14, p. 217; see also Bull. Michigan Orn. Club, IV, p. 63) the dis- 

 covery of the breeding area of Kirtland's Warbler {Dendroica kirtlaudi). 

 The capture of a specimen in June last in Oscoda County, Michigan, by 

 Mr. E. H. Frothingham (see Bull. Michigan Orn. Club, IV, p. 47) led to 



