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the transaction of other routine business, arrangements have been made 

 for a 'Nature Study Symposium,' at which addresses will be given by 

 prominent Nature Study teachers, with exhibits of specimens and of 

 methods of instruction; also of artificial nesting-sites and other devices 

 for the preservation and increase of birds. 



The Twenty-ninth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union will be held at the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 at Philadelphia, beginning on the evening of November 13, 1911. The 

 evening session will be a business meeting for the election of officers and 

 members, and for the transaction of routine business. Tuesday and the 

 following days of the meeting will be for the presentation and discussion 

 of scientific papers and will be open to the public. Members intending 

 to present communications should forward the titles to the Secretary, 

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

 November 8, in order that the program of papers may be duly prepared. 



