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any particular part of it. — I tliinic I need liardly trouble you 

 with disquisitions ou the recent progress of journals viith a 

 less extended object. There are a considerable number of 

 such publications, as a search in the well- stocked library of 

 the Zoolo.sical Society will show to those vrho wish to consult 

 them; and many of them are making valuable contributions 

 to the knowledge of our favourite science. Amongst these I 

 may specially mention ''Ornis/ the organ of the permanent 

 International Ornithological Committee; hitherto edited bv 

 Prof. Dr. H. Blasius. and published at Brunsvrick (it is now 

 in its ninth year of publication) ; the ' OrniiLologisches 

 Jahrbuch ' of A^ictor, Patter von Tschusi zu Schmidhofl'en^. 

 published at Hallein, now in its eighth year; and ' Aquila/ 

 the organ of the Hungarian Central Bureau for Ornithological 

 Observations^ which was commenced in 1894. It is singular 

 that, so far as I know^ there has never been a purely orni- 

 thological journal started in France; but Italy has lately 

 started an ' Avicula '' — parva sed omnino Italica ! With 

 hearty wishes for success, in which I am sure you will join me, ' 

 to this youngest^, and likewise to every other member of the 

 confraternity of ornithological journals, I have only to ask 

 your kind excuses for having so long occupied your attention." 



The Chairman submitted the following list of Orni- 

 thological Journals, now in the course of publication, of 

 which there are copies in the Library of the Zoological 

 Society of London : — 



Amemca. 



1. The Auk, a Quarterly Journal of Oruitbologj. Vols. I.-XIV. 



Svo. -Boston aud ^eto York, 1S84-97. 



2. The Osprer. An Illustrated Monthly IMajrazine of Oruithologv. 



Vol. I. 2sos. 1-7. " Svo. Galesbioy, III, 1697. 



AUSTEIA. 



3. Oruithologisches Jahrhuch. — Organ ftir das palaartische Faunen- 



gebiet. ^Jahrg. I.-VIII. Hefte 1-5. Eoyal 8to. Hallein, 1890-97. 



4. Mittheilungen des ornithologi.^chen Vereines in Wien. Jahrg. I.- 



XXI. Nos. 1-3. 4to. Wien, 1S77-97. 



