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Shufeldt, R. W. The chipmunk. Country Life, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 98 and 102. 
April, 1919. (Notes on Tamias striatus.) 
SuRBBR, Thaddeus. The Pine County Game Refuge as a playground. Fins, 
Feathers, and Fur (Official Bulletin, Minn. Game and Fish Dept.), no. 18, 
pp. 1-4. June, 1919. (Notes on game and other mammals in Minnesota.) 
SuRBER, Thaddeus. Additions to the mammalian fauna of Minnesota. Fins, 
Feathers, and Fur, no. 18, p. 6. June, 1919. {Reithrodontomys megalotis 
dychei and Blarina parva.) 
Thomas, Oldfield. On small mammals from ‘Dtro Cerro,” northeastern 
Rioja, collected by Sr. L. Budin. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 3, 
pp. 489-500. May, 1919. (Nine new species of Neotropical mammals.) 
Thomas, Oldfield. On a small collection of mammals from Lumbo, Mozam- 
bique. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 4, pp. 29-34. July, 1919. 
(New Helogale, Paraxerus, and Steatomys from Portuguese East Africa.) 
Thomas, Oldfield. A new species of Euneomys from Patagonia. Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 4, pp. 127-128. September, 1919. {E. dabbenei 
sp. nov. from Santa Cruz.) 
Thomas, Oldfield. List of mammals from the highlands of Jujuy, North 
Argentina, collected by Sr. E. Budin. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 
vol. 4, pp. 128-135. September, 1919. (New forms of Euneomys, Hespero- 
mys, Eligmodontia, Abracoma, Lagidium, and Galea.) 
Thomas, Oldfield. Two new rodents from Tartagal, Salta, N. Argentina. 
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 4, pp. 154-156. September, 1919. 
(Akodon tartar eus and Ctenomys sylvanus, spp. nov.) 
editorial comment 
The American Society of Mammalogists was founded at Washington, D. C., 
April 3, 1919. After much preliminary work, the committee appointed to con- 
sider plans for the organization of such a society issued a call for a meeting on 
April 3 and 4, 1919, at the National Museum. Over 250 favorable responses were 
received before April 3, and sixty persons from many parts of the United States 
and Canada were present for the opening meeting on that day. Plans for the 
Society were perfected, officers elected, committees formed, and by-laws and 
rules were adopted. The objects of the Society were declared to be ‘The pro- 
motion of the interests of mammalogy by holding meetings, issuing a serial or 
other publications, aiding research, and engaging in such other activities as 
may be deemed expedient.” Systematic work, life history and habits of mam- 
mals, evolution, palaeontology, anatomy, and every phase of technical and 
popular mammalogy are to come within the scope of the society and its pub- 
lications. New members and advance subscriptions for the Journal have been 
steadily received since the organization meeting and the permanent success of 
the Society and its publications seems assured. 
One of the principal objects of the Society is the publication of the Journal 
of Mammalogy. It is aimed to make this journal indispensible to all workers in 
every branch of mammalogy and of value to every person interested in mam- 
mals, be he systematist, palaeontologist, anatomist, museum or zoological 
