466 Notes and News. q^ 



" (s) In case of writers who habitually place a certain leading or typical 

 species first as 'chef de file,' the others being described by compara- 

 tive reference to this, this fact should be considered in the choice of 

 the type species. 



" (0 In case of those authors who have adopted the 'first species rule' 



in fixing types, the first species named by them should be taken as 



types of their genera." 



The secretary in presenting the report of the Commission, stated that 



the Code, as now constituted, would probably cover 90 % of the cases 



that may arise, and would in all probability prove satisfactory to 90 % 



of zoologists. 



The Congress adjourned on Friday, to meet in Gratz in 1910, under tho 

 presidency of Professor Ludwig von Graff. On Sunday Woods Hole was 

 visited en route to New York, the members of the Congress arriving in New 

 York Monday morning and remaining through the week. The Congress 

 was received on Monday by the trustees and officers of the Department of 

 Zoology of Columbia University; on Tuesday as guests of the trustees and 

 officers of the American Museum of Natural History; on Wednesday the 

 Congress visited Cold Spring Harbor, as guests of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences and the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution; 

 Thursday was devoted to visits to the New York Zoological Park and 

 Aquarium; on Thursday an excursion was made to West Point and 

 Castle Rock, the residence of Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, as guests 

 of Professor Osborn. On Saturday many of the members accepted in- 

 vitations from the trustees of Yale University and Princeton University 

 to visit New Haven and Princeton. During the following week the 

 foreign members and delegates visited Philadelphia, Washington, Niagara 

 Falls, and Toronto. 



The chief advantage of such gatherings is, of course, the opportunity 

 thus afforded of bringing together for social intercourse a large number of 

 investigators who otherwise may never know each other except through 

 correspondence or published writings. In the present case many of the 

 foreign delegates made their first acquaintance with American scientific 

 institutions, in which they found much of interest and not a little to admire. 



The Twexty-fifth Annual Congress of the American Ornithologists* 

 Union will be held in Philadelphia, beginning on the evening of Monday, 

 December 9, 1907. The evening session will be for the election of officers 

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

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

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

 to present communications are requested to forward the titles of their 

 papers to the Secretary, Mr. John H. Sage, Portland, Conn., so as to reach 

 him not later than December 5. 



