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purpose of awakening interest in nature study among the teachers of the 

 «ity. 



The same number of the ' Bulletin ' records the capture of a Frigate Bird 

 (Fregata aquila) on Sullivan Island, Charleston harbor, on October 20, 

 1906, which makes the second record of this species for South Carolina. — ■ 

 J. A. A. 



Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Tubinares. 1 — Following a review of the 

 literature of the general subject, are a few pages on the osteology of Puf- 

 finus borealis, with a half-tone figure of the skeleton, and a short discus- 

 sion of the taxonomy and affinities of the Tubinares. The classification 

 that seems to the author to be "natural" is the same as that given in 

 Sharpe's 'Hand-List of Birds.' — J. A. A. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Alfred Newton, an Honorary Fellow of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, died at Cambridge, England, June 8, 1907, at the age of 78 years. 

 Prof. Newton was born in Switzerland, June 11, 1829, of English parents, 

 he being the fifth son of William Newton, formerly member of Parliament 

 for Ipswich, and of Elizabeth (Milnes), daughter of Richard Slater Milnes, 

 formerly member of Parliament for York. He was graduated B. A., in 

 1853, at Magdalen College, Cambridge, and later, as a traveling Fellow of 

 the College (1854-1863), visited Lapland, Iceland, the West Indies, and 

 North America, and in 1864 he visited Spitzbergen. He was elected 

 professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Magdalen College in 

 1864, which position he held at the time of his death. 



Professor Newton was one of the twenty original members of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, founded in November, 1858 at Magdalen College, 

 Cambridge, which organization resulted in the establishment of a 

 Quarterly Magazine of Ornithology, 'The Ibis,' the first volume of which 

 was published in 1859, under the editorship of Dr. P. L. Sclater. The 

 second series of 'The Ibis' (1865-1870) was edited by Newton; he also 

 prepared the bibliographical matter for the 'Aves' of the 'Zoological 

 Record' for the years 1864-1869, and was editor of the ' Zoological Record,' 

 1870-1872. His principal publications are 'The Zoology of Ancient 

 Europe' (1862), the ' Ornithology of Iceland' (1863), 'Ootheca Wolleyana' 

 (1864-1907), 'Zoology' (1874, 1894), ' Yarrell's British Birds' (4th ed., 



1 On the Osteology of the Tubinares. By R. W. Shufeldt. Amer. Nat., Vol. XLI, 

 Feb. 1907, pp. 109-124. 



