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The Deutsche Ornitltologisehe GeseUschaft. — The first 

 number of the * Journal fur Ornithologie ' for the present 

 year contains a list of the Members of the German Orni- 

 thological Society. The President is Dr. R. Blasius, the 

 Vice-President Herr Sehalow, while Dr. A. Reichenow is the 

 General Secretary, Prof. Matschie the Vice-Secretary, and 

 Herr Deditius the Treasurer. The nine Honorary Members 

 are Prof. Mobius, Dr. Bolle, Prof. Collett, Herr Herman, 

 Dr. Kriiper, Prof. Xewtou, Count Salvadori, Dr. Sclatcr, 

 and Dr. R. B. Sharpe. There are 138 Ordinary Members. 



Dr. Finsch. — "We are sure that all our ornithological 

 friends will join us in feeling regret that Dr. Finsch has 

 resigned his appointment at the Leydeu Museum, in order 

 to take charge of the new Ethnographical Division of the 

 Municipal Museum at Brunswick. Dr. Finsch, as we all 

 know, is deeply interested in Ethnology, and will, no 

 doubt, be glad to return to his fatherland. But we shall be 

 very sorry not to have his assistance at Leyden, where he has 

 done so much good work of late years. Schlegel, who was 

 appointed Conservator of the Ornithological Department in 

 1828 and Director of the whole Museum in 1858, catalogued 

 some 18,000 specimens of birds, representing 2300 species, 

 in his ' Museum d'Histoire Xaturelle des Pays-Bas,' up to 

 1882. After that time little was done among the birds until 

 1898, when Dr. Finsch took up the matter and began a new 

 Catalogue, which contains entries of some 13,000 speci- 

 mens, referable to 3000 species. We trust that an active 

 ornithologist mav be found to continue Dr. Finsch's work. 



Hart's Museum, Christchurch. — We regret to learn that 

 there is little prospect of carrying out the plan of removing 

 Hart's Museum to Bournemouth, according to the arrange- 

 ment referred to in our January number (above, p. 170). The 



