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NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer, an Honorary Fellow of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, died in Berlin February 5, 1911, at the age of 71 

 years. He was born in Hamburg in 1840, and received his education as 

 physician and naturalist in Berlin. In 1874 he was appointed Director 

 of the Royal Museum of Zoology, Anthropology, and Ethnography at 

 Dresden, which position he held for thirty-two years, resigning from it in 

 1896. He spent a number of years as a successful explorer and collector 

 in the Eastern Archipelago, passing three years (1870-73) in the Celebes 

 and visiting New Guinea and the Philippine Islands, this expedition 

 resulting in his great work 'On the Birds of Celebes and the Neighboring 

 Islands,' published in two quarto volumes in 1898, in joint authorship 

 with L. W. Wiglesworth, his English assistant in his explorations (reviewed 

 in this journal, XVII, Oct. 1900, pp. 399-401). His principal other 

 general ornithological work was his ' Abildungen der Vogel-Skeleten,' in two 

 quarto volumes with over 200 plates (1879-97), but his minor ornitho- 

 logical papers are very numerous, many of them important, and all char- 

 acterized by care and accuracy. He also published many anthropological 

 papers, based largely on his work in the Eastern Archipelago. He was 

 also an able museum director and greatly advanced the growth and effi- 

 ciency of the Dresden Museum, so long under his management. His 

 invention of the famous 'Dresden Case,' of glass and iron, after long study, 

 has met with wide approval, it having been adopted in many other mu- 

 seums. His later years were devoted to linguistic and anthropological 

 research. His scientific attainments won for him wide recognition, he 

 having been made an Honorary or a Corresponding Member of a large 

 number of the learned societies and academies of the world. 



Readers of 'The Auk' will be interested in the following editorial state- 

 ment that will appear in the October issue of 'Bird-Lore' respecting the 

 long-continued illness of Mr. William Dutcher, formerly for many years 

 the zealous and efficient Treasurer of the A. O. U., who was stricken with 

 paralysis in October, 1910 (see antea, p. 151): 



"On October 15, 1911, a year will have passed since the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies was robbed by illness of the guidance and counsel 

 of its President and Founder, William Dutcher. During this period, Mr. 

 Dutcher has lain helpless and speechless at his home at Plainfield, New 

 Jersey. His mental faculties, at first dimmed by the blow which fell so 

 suddenly, were subsequently restored to him, and he not only recognizes, 

 but welcomes gladly, those of his friends who are privileged to see him. 



"As the leader of a great movement, the remarkable success of which is 

 due to his untiring, unselfish, broad-minded efforts more than to those of 

 any other man, Mr. Dutcher won the admiration and respect, not only 



