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NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. Howarp GARDNER NICHOLS, an Associate Member of the A. O. U., 
and for a number of years a Resident Member of the Nuttall Ornithological 
Club, died June 23, 1896, at the early age of 25 years, at Atlanta, Georgia, 
from injuries received several weeks before by the fall of a piece of 
machinery in a cotton mill at Alabama City, Alabama. He was a gradu- 
ate of Harvard in the class of 1893. After graduation he went into the 
business of cotton manufacturing, and at the time of his death was the 
manager of a large plant for the weaving of cotton at Alabama City. He 
was very successful in this undertaking, and had every prospect of a 
brilliant future. What leisure time he had was largely devoted to 
the study of birds, and the same zeal and earnestness which he carried 
into all his work promised much of value as the result of his investi- 
gations of the little-known fauna of the region in which he was 
situated. At the time of his death he was mayor of Alabama City, where 
his death was mourned as an irreparable public loss, and where he was 
honored and respected for “his sterling worth, strict integrity, and noble 
charity.” 
Tue AcTIoN on the Amendments to the By-Laws of the A. O. U. pro- 
posed at the Thirteenth Congress, and referred to the Fourteenth Con- 
gress, resulted as follows: The first and third proposed changes 
were not adopted, but the proposed addition of the words ‘‘ together with 
the Ex-Presidents” to the second amendment was adopted. The first 
paragraph of Article II, Section I, as amended, reads as follows : — 
“ Article II, Section IT. The Officers of the Union shall be a President, 
two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and seven Councillors 
These Officers, together with the Ex-Presidents, shall constitute the 
Board of Management or Council of the Union, for the transaction of 
such business as may be assigned to it by the By-Laws or by the Union.” 
THE ornithological collection formed by the late Dr. William Wood, of 
East Windsor Hill, Conn., has been presented by his widow and children 
to the Hartford (Conn.) Scientific Society, and will soon be placed on 
exhibition in the rooms of the Society. The collection is mostly 
mounted, and contains many excellent specimens of the rapacious birds 
found in Connecticut. 
DaviD DouGLas, Edinburgh, has issued a prospectus of ‘A History of 
Fowling, being an account of the many curious devices by which Wild 
Birds are or have been captured in different parts of the World,’ by the 
Rev. H. A. Macpherson. It will form a quarto volume of about 450 
