THE IOWA ORNITHOLOGIST. 



89 



We will be g-lad to meet any of 

 the fraternity at the First Annual 

 Cong-ress of the I. O. A. to be held 

 at Iowa City, Iowa. Aug-ust 22, 

 23 , '95. The Cong-ress will be held 

 in the Zoolog-ical Lecture Room 

 of the State University. Come 

 and you will be made welcome. 



I will state here that it is very 

 important that every member of 

 I. O. A. should attend the First 

 Annual Cong:ress of the associa- 

 tion, which will be held at Iowa 

 City, Aug-ust 22,-23, 1895. in the 

 Zoolog"ical Lecture Room of the 

 State University; as it will be of 

 the g-reatest of value for us to be 

 personally acquainted with our 

 ;o-workers; also there is some 

 important business to attend to, 

 hence we need a full attendance 

 Let each one of us strive to 

 be present. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The seventeen year Cicadas ate 

 enjoying" the resurrection of life, 

 this summer. Have you h'eard 'em? 



E. B. Webster has some of the 

 finest photos of birds, we have 

 ever seen. We recommend them 

 to anyone' desiring- anything- in 

 this line. 



First annual cong-ress of I. O. 

 A. v/ill be held at Iowa City, Iowa 

 on Aug-ust 22 — 23. Be sure and 

 make arrang-ments to be present. 



Fred W. Stack, of Poug-hkeep- 

 sie, N. Y, keeps on hands a larg-e 



collection of instruments and sup- 

 plies for the Naturalist; birds- 

 eg-g-s, etc. It would pay you to 

 send for his catalog-ue. See ad- 

 on first inside cover pag-e. 



Walter G. Savag-e, of Hillsboro, 

 la., feels proud over securing- a 

 female specimen of Gray Star 

 Buzzard, on May 25, 1895, in Van 

 Buren Co. la., near his home. 



2 he Naturalist and Col! ec tor of 

 which No. 1 appeared in June, is 

 the latest aspirant for success. 

 This number is very interesting- 

 and contains much valuable in- 

 formation. It is published at 

 Abing-ton, Illinois, by Shoop Pub- 

 lishing- Co. 



Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Stearns, 

 of Sac City, Iowa, are rejoicing- 

 over the advent of a young nat- 

 uralist in their home on June 6 th. 

 1895. 



A late and hig-hly prized ad- 

 dition to my private Collection — 

 is a tanned Rattle Snake skin; 6 

 feet in leng-th, with thirteen rat- 

 tles and a button. Captured at 

 Enterprise, Florida, in a cabbag-e 

 patch. Donated to the C. F. H. 

 by Mrs. Fred L. Paine of this city. 

 — Carl Fritz Henning-. 



The Iowa Oknithologist is 

 pleased to note the marriag-e of 

 Mr. Russell E. Bartlett of Rbck- 

 ford, 111. to Miss Lucile Peck; 

 which happy event was consu- 

 mated in Kalamazoo, Michig-an, 

 the evening- of May 23- Mr. 

 Bartlett is well known to the col- 



