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and was an enthusiastic observer of nature, and a frequent contributor to 

 natural history journals, his contributions relating to a wide range of sub- 

 jects. His articles are mostly of a popular character, but include many 

 original observations, which give them a permanent value. His ornitho- 

 logical writings were not extensive. At the Ninth Congress of the A. O. 

 U. he read a paper entitled 'Why the Mockingbirds left New Jersey — a 

 Geological Reason,' which was published in the 'American Naturalist' for 

 August, 1892. For many years he was President of the New Jersey 

 Microscopical Society. 



News has just reached us of the death of Dr. William Cushman Avery, 

 an Associate Member of the A. 0. U., at his home in Greensboro', 

 Alabama, on March 11, 1894. Further notice of Dr. Avery is necessarily 

 deferred to a later number of 'The Auk.' 



A new edition of Mr. Thomas Mcllwraith's 'Birds of Ontario' is 

 announced as in press by the Methodist Book and Publishing House of 

 Toronto. This new edition, the publishers state, "has been carefully 

 revised and enlarged, and will present a concise account of every species 

 of bird known to have been found in Ontario (316 in all), with a descrip- 

 tion of their nests and eggs. Mr. Mcllwraith has added to the new book 

 instructions for collecting birds and preparing and preserving skins, also 

 directions how to form a collection of eggs." The volume will comprise 

 some 420 pages of letter-press, with numerous illustrations. 



A new edition of the late Henry D. Minot's 'The Land-Birds and 

 Game-Birds of New England, with Descriptions of the Birds, their Nests 

 and Eggs, their Habits and Notes,' is also about to appear, under the 

 editorship of Mr. William Brewster. Mr. Minot's book was not only a 

 highly original work, but one of much merit and permanent value, and 

 hence well worthy of a new lease of life. 



Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads, of Haddonfield, N. J., announces that he has 

 discovered a perfect copy of the long lost 'Second American Edition' of 

 'Guthrie's Geography,' published in 1815, and containing zoological 

 matter prepared by George Ord. This embraces pp. 290-361 of Vol. II, 

 and includes "nominal lists of vertebrates, in which scientific names are 

 originally imposed upon nearly all of the species described by Lewis and 

 Clarke, followed by descriptions of many of them." It is thus an impor- 

 tant work of reference, access to which has of late been impossible. Mr. 

 Rhoads states that this was "Mr. Ord's private annotated copy," presented 

 at his death to the Philadelphia College of Physicians. A reprint of the 

 part on zoology is being prepared for publication. "As nearly as possible 

 the reprint will be an exact reproduction of the size, paging, paragraphing, 

 typography and mistakes of the original." Orders for the work may be 

 addressed to Mr. Rhoads, as above. 



