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Peale's Museum was of considerable scientific importance ; 

 in it were deposited the spoils of the Lewis and Clark 

 Expedition to the Columbia River in 1804-1806, as well as 

 those obtained by Major Long, with his assistants Thomas 

 Say and Titian R. Peale (son of Charles Willsou Peale) 

 during his journey to the Rocky Mountains in 1819-20. 

 Wilson, the author of ' American Ornithology/ and many 

 of the other early American naturalists also deposited, 

 their collections in Peale's Museum, so that a number of 

 invaluable types of North American birds must have been 

 stored there. The portion of the collection bought by Moses 

 Kimball in 1839, who was the proprietor of a Museum in 

 Boston known as the New England Museum, has now, after 

 many vicissitudes, passed into the possession of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. 



Mr. Faxon has now been very carefully through all these 

 old and somewhat battered birds, and has endeavoured to 

 trace a connection between them and the birds as figured 

 by Wilson, some with mo^re, some with less success. As all 

 the old labels were removed at the time of the sale of 

 Peale's Museum, these identifications must always be a 

 matter of some doubt, but it seems probable that some, at 

 any rate, are correct. 



Ghidini on the Herring-Gull. 



[Le Larus cachinnans Pall., a Geneve. Par Angelo Ghidini. Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. Geneve, 1915, pp. 111-115.] • 



All the evidence collected by Mr. Ghidini goes to prove 

 that the Herring-Gull of the Lake of Geneva, where, 

 however, it is not very common, is the Mediterranean 

 form L. cachinnans, and not L. argentatus as has been 

 generally supposed. He has not been able as yet t.o find 

 out to which race the Herring-Gulls frequenting the 

 Lake of Constance belong. 



Gordon on Hill Birds of Scotland. 



[Hill Birds of Scotland. By Seton Gordon, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 

 Pp. xii+300 ; many illustr. London (Arnold), 1915. 8vo.] 



This volume contains field-notes and observations by the 



