Decembee 13, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



927 



' The Plumages of the American Gold- 

 finch (Spinus tristis)^: Jonathan Dwight, Jr. 



* Routes of Bird Migration across the 

 Gulf of Mexico': W. W. Cooke. 



* On Methods in Museum Bird Exhibits ' : 

 Frank M. Chapman. 



' Ornithological Notes from Northern 

 New Hampshire ': John N. Clark. 



' Some Impressions of Texas Birds ': 

 Louis Agassiz Fuertes and H. C. Ober- 



HOLSER. 



' The White-winged Crossbill in Captiv- 

 ity ': James H. Hill. 



' The American and European Herring 

 Gulls ': J. A. Allen. 



' Auduboniana ' : Ruthven Deane. 



' The Molts and Plumages of the North 

 American Ducks (^Anatidce) ': Jonathan 

 Dwight, Jr. 



' A Naturalist in Yucatan,' illustrated 

 by lantern slides : E. W. Nelson. 



' Photography in North Dakota Bird 

 Colonies,' et cetera, illustrated by lantern 

 slides : Herbert K. Job. 



* A Reconnaissance in Manitoba and the 

 Northwest,' illustrated by lantern slides : 

 Frank M. Chapman. 



' Are Humming Birds Cypseloid or Capri- 

 mulgoid ?' Hubert Lyman Clark. 



' List of Birds of Wequetonsing, Mich.': 

 Otto Widmann. 



' Notes on the Ornithological Observa- 

 tions of Peter Kalm': Spencer Trotter. 



' Report of the Committee on the Protec- 

 tion of North American Birds ': Witmer 

 Stone. 



' Results obtained under the Thayer 

 Fund ': William Dutcher. 



'National Bird Protection— Its Oppor- 

 tunities and Limitations ': T. S. Palmer. 



' Gulls of the Maine Coast, and Miscel- 

 laneous Notes,' illustrated by lantern 

 slides : Wm. Dutcher and Wm. L. Baily. 



'Some Results of Bird Protection,' il- 

 lustrated by lantern slides: Frank M. 

 Chapman. 



The next annual meeting will be held in 

 Washington, D. C. , commencing November 

 17, 1902. 



John H. Sage, 



Secretary. 



JOSEPH HIBSCH. 



The biography of the late Joseph Hirsch, 

 briefly sketched, is as follows : 



Born May 22, 1836, of an old and well- 

 known family, characterized in all its 

 branches by taste, refinement, and ability, 

 and with a strong proclivity toward both 

 art and engineering, he studied at the Ecole 

 Polytechnique and became an engineer of the 

 Fonts et Chaussees, standing at the head of 

 his class in line of promotion from the first. 

 He served in Marseilles, Algiers and Al- 

 sacia, and accepted missions in Germany 

 and Austria. In 1861 he was engaged in 

 the construction of the Houilleres de la 

 Sarre canal, inventing, meantime, the in- 

 genious syphon arrangement by which its 

 level is automatically maintained. In 1867 

 he was assigned to special service relative 

 to the work of improvement of the naviga- 

 tion of the Saone, and presently, on his 

 marriage with Mile. Dreyfus-Dupont, whose 

 distinguished relatives in this country are 

 so well known to all engineers and army 

 and navy men, he secured indefinite leave 

 from the Government and devoted himself 

 to the study and investigations which so 

 liberally offered themselves in connection 

 with the great iron and steel works of his 

 father-in-law. After the close of the Franco- 

 German war, one of these establishments, 

 on then German territory, was sold, and 

 Hirsch erected new and modern works 'at 

 Pompey, near Fruard. In this construc- 

 tion he introduced every modern appliance 

 and made it a model of its kind. 



The children of this fortunate union 

 growing up, it was decided to take up resi- 

 dence in Paris, and for many years. No. 1, 

 rue de Castiglione, was a center of social, 



