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and North America, but I had the pleasure of meeting 
Mr. Richmond, Dr. Merriam, Messrs. Bailey, Oberholser, 
and Osgood, all of the Biological Survey. 
On my way back west I spent a day at Chicago. At the 
Field-Columbian Museum Mr. W. B. Cory is now in charge 
of the department of Birds and Mammals in place of 
Mr. D. G. Elliot, who has recently resigned and settled in 
New York. The glory of the Field-Columbian Museum is 
undoubtedly a series of groups of larger Mammals, chiefly 
African: these are beautifully modelled and mounted by 
Mr. Ake¥ley, the chief taxidermist, who is now on his way 
back from another collecting-trip in East Africa. They 
form a double row of large square free-standing cases 
down one of the long and lofty aisles of the building. The 
Bird-room was closed for rearrangement, and from what I 
saw of the collection it would certainly require a good deal 
of weeding out and renewal. 
In the afternoon I visited the Museum of the Chicago 
Academy of Natural Sciences, which is situated in Lincoln 
Park, about three miles north of the City, while the Field- 
Columbian Museum must be at least six miles in the other 
direction. The collections here, though small and unam- 
bitious and chiefly confined to the Fauna of the Mississippi 
Valley, are very well installed, and reflect great credit on 
Mr. Woodruff, the taxidermist and Curator of the Bird- 
department. 
I reached Colorado Springs on the evening of the 6th of 
January, having been absent just fifteen days, after a very 
instructive and enjoyable excursion. 
I am, Sirs, yours &c., 
W. L. Sciarer. 
Colorado Springs, Colorado, 
Feb. 2nd, 1907. 
ee 
The Anniversary Meeting of the German Ornithological 
Society. — The Fifty-sixth Anniversary Meeting of the 
** Deutsche Ornithologische Gesellschaft” (for 1906) was 
held at Breslau on the 21st of September last and the three 
following days, and, as will be seen by the Report on it 
