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As already stated, the matter of publications was placed in the 

 hands of the Council, by which body the subject was duly 

 weighed after the adjournment of the Union. Naturally the 

 question of an organ, in the form of a serial publication, was the 

 first to present itself, and the impression was general that such a 

 publication must prove indispensable to the work of the Union. 

 It was accordingly voted to establish such a journal, its publica- 

 tion to begin January, 1884. Mr. Allen was chosen editor, to 

 be assisted by a stafl:' of associate-editors, likewise selected by 

 the Council, who are collectively to decide the character of 

 the periodical, and to whom will be intrusted its management. 



It may be further announced in the present connection that 

 upon this action being known, it became a question with the 

 members of the Nuttall Ornithological Club whether the Nuttall 

 Club should contintte to publish an organ, which, under the new 

 conditions, could only be a rival of that of the Union. The two 

 organizations being virtually one in interest and purpose, — the 

 later being to some extent an outgrowth of the earlier, — and 

 necessarily identical in membership in so far as can be the case 

 where a greater includes a lesser, the Nuttall Club, at a meeting 

 held October i, voted to discontinue its Bulletin with the close 

 of the present volume, and to ofler to the American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union its good will and subscription list, — to place the 

 Bulletin in the hands of the Council of the Union with its tra- 

 ditions and prestige, with, the tacit understanding that the new 

 serial of the Union shall be ostensibly a second series of the 

 Nuttall Bulletin. It is therefore to be hoped and expected 

 that the many friends of the Bulletin who have hitherto given 

 it such hearty support will extend their allegiance to the new 

 publication of the Union, freely contribute their observations 

 to its pages, and use their influence to extend its usefulness. 



