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last-planned expedition to the capital of Thibet. As the Russian author- 
ities are determined not to abandon the expedition, it is to be hoped that 
it will be carried out in the spirit of its originator. We notice with great 
satisfaction that the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences has begun a work 
which will be a grand monument to the lamented explorer, the first part 
of a great work, in Russian and German, entitled, ‘ Wissenschaftliche 
Resultate der von Przewalski nach Central Asien unternommenen Reisen’, 
having just appeared, containing a portion of the mammals (/eodentia). 
THurRE KuMLIEN, of Milwaukee, Wisc.,an Associate Member of the A 
O. U., and one of the older ornithologists—a valued correspondent of the 
late Professor Baird and Dr. Brewer—died recently at his home near Mil- 
waukee. A fuller notice of his life and ornithological work is necessa- 
rily deferred, the required data having unexpectedly failed to come to 
hand. 
Wicu1AM L. Breese, recently elected an Associate Member of the A. 
O. U., died athis home in Islip, Long Island, Dec. 7, 1888, in his thirty- 
seventh year. Mr. Breese was a well-known Wall-street broker, of the 
firm of Breese and Smith, anda son of Commodore Breese. Although 
little known as an ornithologist, he having published but little, the study 
of birds was one of his pastimes, and he had brought together quite a 
collection of the birds of Long Island. He was prominent in social, yacht- 
ing, and athletic circles, and highly esteemed. 
AT THE meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union recently held 
in Washington the matter of revising the proposed additions to the A. O. 
U. Check-List of North American birds, together with sundry suggested 
changes of nomenclature made since the publication of the Check-List, 
was referred to the Committee on Publications, with authority to publish 
the results of their work at the earliest practicable date, as a ‘Supplement, 
to the A. O. U. Code and Check-List, and uniform with it as regards mat- 
terandtypography. The Committee held a six days’ session, ruling upon 
upwards of one hundred distinct questions. The status of the newly 
described species and subspecies, and the claims to admission of a num- 
ber of extra-limital species were duly considered, as also a number 
of proposed changes in generic, subgeneric, and specific names. The 
preparation of the manuscript was provided for, as also the early publi- 
cation of the report, in the hope of issuing it early in the year 188o. 
The Union also voted that hereafter it shall be the duty of the Commit- 
tee on Publications to act in a similar manner at each meeting of the A. 
O. U. onthe proposed additions and changes of nomenclature made dur- 
ing the preceding year, and that it shall make provision to have laid before 
it the material (specimens and other evidence) by consideration of which 
the merits of each case may be respectively determined. 
Tue Councit of the A. O. U. decided at its late meeting in Washingtou 
to issue an abridged edition of the Check-List, consisting of the scientific 
and common names, the serial numbering. and the ‘concordance.’ omitting 
