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includes Mount Anne, or Thompson’s Mountain, the highest point on the 
North Shore, some 225 feet above the sea, —a pine-clad, granite summit 
in the midst of a forest wilderness. The park is otherwise charmingly 
diversified, being a spot of exceptional natural beauty. 
WE WOULD call especial attention to the efforts of the Audubon 
Monument Association of New Orleans to raise funds for the erection of 
a Monument to the famous ornithologist John James Audubon, in Audubon 
Park, that city. To this end the Association offers for sale a well written 
and tastefully bound volume of some eighty pages containing a sketch of 
Audubon’s life by Mrs. Mary Fluker Bradford of New Orleans. 
This work can be obtained of the Audubon Monument Association of 
New Orleans for the price of one dollar. It is not only worth this sum 
but every purchaser will have the satisfaction of helping a good cause. 
HouGuToNn, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY announce among their Autumn 
publications ‘ Birds of Village and Field, by Florence A. Merriam. The 
book is intended for beginners and, we are told, “is planned primarily to 
meet the needs of persons who are interested in birds but who know 
very little about them, —to aid them, without a gun, to know and name 
the common birds around them.’ The work will have nearly 300 
illustrations. 
RESPECTING the collection of birds’ eggs in the British Museum, we 
take the following from ‘The Ibis,’ for July, 1897: “The great collection of 
birds’-eggs in the British Museum, which was arranged under the direc- 
tion of Seebohm shortly before his death, contains about 48,000 specimens, 
and is, no doubt, by far the most extensive collection of these objects in 
existence. It is contained in 35 cabinets, with about 24 drawers in each 
cabinet, and follows the systematic order of the Bird Catalogue. In it 
are comprised, besides the old collection, the large collections of Gould, 
Hume, Salvin and Godman, and Seebohm. It is thus rich in Indian, 
Palearctic, Australian, and Central American eggs, but comparatively 
poor in South American and African forms. A Handbook of General 
Oology, based upon this splendid series, would be a most valuabie work, 
and will, we trust, shortly be undertaken. Nothing of the sort has been 
published since the appearance of Des Murs’s ‘Traité Général d’Oologie 
Ornithologique,’ in 1860.” 
From the same authority we learn that the Gatke Collection of birds 
and eggs, and the library belonging therewith, has become the property 
of the Prussian State, and placed under the control of the Royal Biological 
Institution in Heligoland; it will soon be removed to the new Heligoland 
Museum and be made accessible to the public. 
