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thology of the Pacific Coast,” with the following officers for the year 1889: 
President, Walter E. Bryant; Vice-President, Harry R. Taylor; Secretary 
and Treasurer, W. Otto Emerson. 
THe Kent ScrentiFic INSTITUTE, incorporated at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., ‘‘for the promotion of scientific education, and the establishment 
and maintenance of a natural history museum,” has elected the following 
officers for the year 188g: President, E. S. Holmes; Vice-President, W. 
A. Gruson; Recording Secretary, C. W. Carman; Corresponding Secre- 
tary, E.S. Holmes; Treasurer, C. A. Whittemore, Director of the Mu- 
seum, W. A. Gruson; Curator, C. W. Carman; Librarian, E. L. Mosely. 
THE OFFICERS of the California Academy of Sciences ior the year 
1889 are as follows :—President, W. H. Harkness; 1st Vice-President, 
H. H. Behr; 2d Vice-President, George Hewston; Corresponding Secre- 
tary, Frederick Gutzkow; Recording Secretary, J. R. Scupham; Treas- 
urer, I. E. Thayer; Librarian, Carlos Troyer; Director of Museum, 
J. G. Cooper. 
IN THE January number of ‘The Auk’ (Vol. VI, p. 82) request was 
made that specimens of certain obscure groups of birds there mentioned 
be sent to Mr. Robert Ridgway to be submitted by him for inspection and 
study at the next meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union to be 
held in New York City next November. To save trouble and reshipment 
Mr. Ridgway desires that the specimens be sent direct to the American 
Museum of Natural History, New York City, to the care of Mr. J. A. Al- 
len, who has consented to receive them and care for them during the 
meeting, at the close of which they will be returned to their owners, It 
is hoped that the matter will be kept in mind, and that a large amount of 
interesting material will be thus brought together for the entertainment 
of the members, and in the interest of further light on some of the ob- 
scure forms of the groups selected for investigation. 
WE LEARN that Mr. William Lloyd is about to explore the ornithology 
of the Volcano of Colima and neighboring snow-crowned peaks in Mex- 
ico, in the interest of Mr. Godman,—a region which should give results 
of the highest interest.—Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Smith sailed recently for 
the island of St. Vincent, West Indies, to thoroughly explore this and 
neighboring islands for birds and insects, also in the interest of Mr. 
Godman.—Messrs. Southwick and Webster have a collector gathering 
birds and mammals in the vicinity of Santarem, on the Lower Amazon. 
—Mr. Frank M. Chapman is spending several months in some of the lit- 
tle known parts of Florida, collecting birds and mammals for the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History, New York City. 
Dr. R. W. Suure tpt jhas returned from Fort Wingate, N. Mex., tol 
Washington D. C. Here with collections and libraries at hand, he wil 
be better situated to prosecute his scientific pursuits. 
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