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ation, iin italioiis were announced for the Union to meet at Qiicbec 

 and Ottawa by Mr. Cliainl)erlain, at Boston by Mr. Brewster, at 

 Wasliin^ton by Dr. Coues, and atTopeka, Kansas, by Col. Goss. 

 Professor Bickniore, in behalf of the trustees, invited the Union to 

 again meet at the American Museum of Natural History in New 

 York. After some discussion the determination of the next place 

 of meeting was referred to the Council. Resolutions of thanks 

 were tiien tendered the President and Trustees of the American 

 Museum of Natural History for their kindness in placing 

 at the disposal of the Union the rooms in which its meet- 

 ings had been held. Also, on behalf of the Committee on 

 Migration, votes of thanks were tendered to Professor S. F. 

 Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for his kind- 

 ness in printing for the Committee the schedules for the use 

 of keepers of lights; to the Hon. William Smith, Deputy Min- 

 ister of Alarine and Fisheries of Canada, for his kindness in 

 distributing and collecting the blank schedules and circulars, and 

 for his order making obligatory the filling of said schedules by the 

 keepers of Light Stations in the Dominion ; to Major William P. 

 Anderson, C. E., F. R. S. C, of Ottawa, Canada, and to Com- 

 mander Henry F. Picking, and also to the Press of the United 

 States and Canada, for substantial aid in its work. 



The second meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union 

 then adjourned, subject to the call of the President, after a session 

 in every respect satisfactory and profitable. ' 



RECENT LIT^ERATURE. 



Brewster on Birds observed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.* — In a paper 

 of about fift}' pages Mr. Brewster gives the i-esults of observations made 

 during a cruise in the Gulf of St. Lawrence between June 24 and August 

 I, 1S81, in the yacht 'Arethusa,' in company with Professor A. Hyatt, 

 Curator of the Boston Society of Natural History, and his assistant Mr. S. 

 Henshaw, and three students of the Institute of Technology. The princi- 

 pal points visited were the Magdalen Islands, Anticosti, and the Mingan 

 Islands. The list of species observed numbers 92, respecting which are 

 notes varying in length from a few lines to several pages. While the 



* Notes on the Birds observed during a Summer Cruise in the Gulf of St. Lawrence- 

 By William Brewster. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXII, pp. 364-412. (Sepa- 

 rates issued July i, 1884.) 



