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28, 1911, at the age of 44 years. He was born in Castell, Unter-franken, 

 February 1, 1S67, the son of a physician. In 1884 he moved with his 

 parents to Munich, where, and in Berlin and Vienna, he studied medicine 

 and became a practising physician. From an early age he was strongly 

 interested in ornithology, to which in his later years he devoted much of 

 his time and energy. He was one of the founders of the Ornithologische 

 Verein Miinchen, in 1897, which in 1904 became the present Ornithologische 

 Verein in Bayern. of which he was the first president, filling this office till 

 his death, and also conducting its publications. He was especially inter- 

 ested in bird migration and distribution, and a strenuous supporter of 

 bird protection; he was also an excellent systematic ornithologist, and the 

 author of many important papers on Bavarian ornithology, and on collec- 

 tions of birds from various parts of Asia and elsewhere. The April Heft 

 of the 'Journal ftir Ornithologie' (LIX Jahrg., pp. 345-350) contains an 

 appreciative sketch of his life and ornithological work by Dr. E. Schnorr 

 V. Carolsfeld, with a portrait and a list of his ornithological writings. 



A prospectus of a work on 'Eggs of Birds breeding in the Netherlands,' 

 by A. A. Van Pelt Lechner, has been issued by the publisher, Martinus 

 Nijoff, The Hague. The work (also called 'Oologia Neerlandica') will 

 be issued in seven parts of from 30 to 35 plates each, making a total of 

 191 plates, with 608 colored and 59 uncolored figures. The edition will 

 be limited to 250 copies, of which 100 are in English. A page of text 

 will face each plate. The subscription price is seven guineas. The 

 sample plate (eggs of the Raven) indicates that the illustrations will be 

 well executed. 



Dr. Frederic A. Lucas, recently Curator of the Museum of the Brook- 

 lyn Institute, and formerly in charge of Osteology in the U. S. National 

 Museum, has been made Director of the American Museum of Natural 

 History in New York City, to succeed Professor Hermon C. Bumpus, who 

 recently resigned to accept the position of Business Director at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. Dr. Lucas entered upon his duties at the American 

 Museum on June 15. 



Mr. A. C. Bent, of Taunton, Mass., whose contemplated expedition 

 to the Aleutian Islands has already been announced (antea, p. 292), sailed 

 from Seattle, Wash., with several assistants, in the U. S. Revenue Cutter 

 'Tacoma,' on May 19 for Attu Island. The expedition is well equipped 

 and its summer's work can not fail to make important additions to our 

 knowledge of the fauna and flora of the Aleutian chain. 



In 'The Auk' for April, 1911 (p. 292) mention was made of Dr. Charles 

 H. Townsend's expedition in the 'Albatross' to Lower California, in the 



