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Mi{. HiiNF<Y Davis Minot, an Associate Member of tlie American 

 Ornithologists' Union, was killed in a railroad acciilent near New Flor- 

 ence, Penn., Nov. 13, 1890, aged 31 years. Mr. Minot, born in West 

 Roxbury, Mass., Aug. 18, 1859, was a son of William and Katlierine Maria 

 (Sedgwick) Minot, and a brother of Professor Charles Sedgwick Minot 

 of Boston, lie entered Harvard College in 1S75, but owing to ill health 

 did not graduate, leaving the college during his sophomore year. He 

 early evinced a passionate fondness for bird life, and when but sixteen 

 years old wrote a very credital)le manual entitled ' The Land and Game 

 Birds of New England' (Boston, 1S77, Svo., pp. 472), showing keenness 

 of observation and originality of treatment. Me also published later 'A 

 Diary of a Bird ' (April, iSSo), with the humane purpose of promoting 

 sentiment favorable to the better protection of our song-birds. He also 

 published various minor papers, including a list of birds observed by him 

 in Colorado (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, pp. 223-232). Of late vears his 

 attention has been devoted almost exclusively to railroad matters, in 

 which he soon became a leading financial expert, and for the last few 

 years has been one of the best known business men, in connection with 

 railroad enterprises, in the Northwest, his residence being at St. Paul, 

 Minn. Although thus deeply engrossed in business he retained a strong 

 interest in ornithology, and was looking forward, we are informed, to a 

 period of leisure when he could resume his favorite studies. With a 

 high order of intellectual ability, genial, warm-hearted and sympathetic, 

 he will be deeply mourned by all who were blest with his personal ac- 

 quaintance. 



The exhibition of photographs and stereopticon slides ra the Eighth 

 Congress of the A. O. LJ. was so far a success as to show the great 

 interest of such exhibitions and the high importance of this class of 

 illustrations as an aid in ornithological work. At the next Congress of 

 the Union, to be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New 

 York, arrangements will be made for placing the pictures on exhibition 

 throughout the meeting, while perhaps a special evening session may be 

 devoted to stereopticon illustrations. It is therefore hoped that during 

 the intervening months the members of the Union will make special 

 effort to secure photographs from life of as many subjects as possible, 

 especially for the stereopticon series. The Committee of Arrangements, 

 to whom the matter was entrusted, was much gratified by the cordial 

 response made to the call for pictures for the Eighth Congress. 



By a vote of the Union the address of the Retiring President, en- 

 titled, -The American Ornithologists' Union, — a Seven Years' Retro- 

 spect,' was ordered to be printed separately, and a copy sent to each 

 member of the Union. The address will be ready for distribution, as a 

 separate publication, early in the present month. 



The action on the Amendments to the By-Laws of the A. O. U., proposed 

 at the Seventh Congress and referred to the Eighth Congress, resulted as 



