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“Time does not permit me to mention any other publica- 
tions, but I would like to call your attention to Oudemans’ 
work on the Dodo, published by the Dutch Academy of 
Science; to Cory’s new ‘Catalogue of the Birds of the 
Americas’; and to the regular issue of the parts of 
Mathews'’s ‘ Birds of Australia.’ 
‘““In Argentina there has recently been founded a new 
Ornithological Society, the Sociedad Ornitdlogica del Plata, 
under the presidency of Dr. Roberto Dabbene. Two numbers 
of the journal of the society, ‘El Hornero,’ have already 
been issued, and contain many contributions of interest. 
We may wish success and prosperity to our new contem- 
porary. 
“In South, Africa the Ornithological Union, which was 
founded in 1904, has found it necessary to combine with 
another society, the Transvaal Biological Society, to form a 
new organization with a somewhat wider scope, to be known 
as the South African Biological Society. A new journal, 
the ‘South African Journal of Natural History, of which 
one number has been issued, is the organ of the new Society, 
and takes the place of the old ‘ Journal of the South African 
Ornithological Union.’ It contains a number of ornitholo- 
gical articles, as well as others on other branches of natural 
history. 
‘“‘T must now mention those members of the Club, as well 
as a few more prominent ornithologists, whom we have lost 
by death during the past year. 
“ Mr. F. M. Ogilvie, though he but seldom attended our 
meetings, was a first-rate observer, and had a fine collection 
of British birds exhibited in a private museum attached to 
his house near Aldeburgh in Suffolk. He lived chiefly at 
Oxford, where he practised as an ophthalmic surgeon. He 
was an original member of the Club, and died at Oxford on 
17 January last. 
“Col. E.S. Mason, who died on 18 March last, was a well- 
known man in Lincolnshire, where he interested himself in 
commercial pursuits and in public life. He possessed a 
valuable collection of albino birds. He joined the Club in 
