Vol. XIV 
1897 Notes and News. 431 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL ConGrREss of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New 
York city, beginning on the evening of Monday, November 8, 1897, when 
will be held the session for the election of officers and members and the 
transaction of routine business. The following three days will be given 
to public sessions for the reading and discussion of scientific papers. 
Members intending to present papers are requested to send the titles of 
the same to the Secretary, Mr. John H. Sage, Portland, Conn., in time to 
reach him prior to November 5, in order to facilitate the preparation of 
the program of papers to be read before the Congress. 
Mr. Louts W. Brokaw, an Associate Member of the American Ornithol- 
ogist’s Union, died at his home at Carmel, Ind., Sept. 3, 1897, after a brief 
illness. 
Sir Epwarp NEwTon, a younger brother of Professor Alfred Newton, 
died at Lowestoft, England, April 25, 1897, in his 65th year, having been 
born in November, 1832. He was one of the founders and original 
members of the British Ornithologists’ Union, and ‘“‘ one of the eight who 
formulated the idea of the Union and of ‘ The Ibis,’’’ and was one of the 
original twenty members to which the British Ornithologists’ Union was 
for a time strictly limited. In 1859 he published in ‘The Ibis,’ in con- 
junction with his brother Alfred, an important paper on the birds of St. 
Croix, West Indies. Later (1862-69) he published various papers and 
reports on the birds of Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, including 
descriptions of many new species, discovered during his official residence 
at Mauritius as Colonial Secretary. Although harassed and overburdened 
with official duties while Lieut-~Governor and Colonial Secretary of 
Jamaica (1877-1883), he found time to form a nearly complete collection 
of the birds of the island, his observations and collection forming the 
basis of his well-known ‘List of the Birds of Jamaica,’ published in the 
‘Handbook of Jamaica,’ issued in 1881. His researches concerning the 
extinct bird fauna of the Mascarenes will ever give his name a prominent 
place in the history of that subject. 
A UNIQUE and exceedingly appropriate memorial to the late Henry 
Davis Minot consists of a park of some fifty acres in extent, recently 
transferred by his four brothers, William, Charles S., Robert, and 
Lawrence Minot, in accordance with the wishes of their father, the late 
William Minot, to the trustees of public reservations in Massachusetts, to 
be maintained as a wild park, “for the use of the public forever.” This 
park, to be known as Mount Anne Park, consists of a tract of about fifty 
acres of beautiful woodland near the village of West Gloucester, Mass. It 
