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The American Ornithologists’ Union. 
[Octobei 
The election for officers resulted as follows : President, J. A. 
Allen ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Elliott Coues' and Robert Ridgway ; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. C. Hart Merriam ; Councillors, 
Prof. S. F. Baird, G. N. Lawrence, William Brewster, H. W. 
Henshaw, and Montague Chamberlain. 
The election of Foreign Members resulted in the choice of the 
following twenty-one scientists of eminence in Ornithology : Prof. 
J. V. Barboza du Bocage, Lisbon ; Dr. Jean Cabanis, Berlin ; 
Mr. Henry E. Dresser, London; Dr. Otto Finsch, Bremen ; Dr. 
H. H. Giglioli, Florence; Dr. John Gundlach, Cuba; Mr. John 
Henry Gurney, Sr., Norwich,. England ; Dr. Gustav Hartlaub, 
Bremen ; Mr Allan O. Hume. Calcutta ; Prof. Thomas Henry 
Huxley, London; Dr Ferdinand Ivrauss, Stuttgart; Prof. Al- 
phonse Milne-Edwards, Paris ; Prof. Alfred Newton, Cambridge, 
England ; Prof. William Kitchen Parker, London ; August von 
Pelzeln, Vienna ; Count Tommaso Salvadori, Turin ; Mr. Osbert 
Salvin, London ; Dr. Hermann Schlegel, Leyden ; Dr. Philip 
Lutley Sclater, London; Mr. R. B. Sharpe, London; Mr. 
Alfred Russell Wallace, London. 
The following twent}^ Corresponding Members were elected, 
further elections in this class being deferred : Count Hans von 
Berlepsch, Hesse, Germany ; Capt. Thomas Blakiston, Hako- 
dadi, Japan ; Mr. Walter Buller, Wellington, New Zealand ; 
Mr. Robert Collett, Christiania, Norway ; Mr. J. J. Dalgleish, 
Edinburgh ; M. le P&re Armand David, Paris ; Mr. Percy 
Evans Freke, Dundrum, Ireland ; Mr. F. DuCane Godman, 
London ; M. Alfred Grandidier, Paris ; Mr. John Henry Gurney, 
Jr., Norwich, England; Mr. J. Edmund Harting, London; 
Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, Larbert, Scotland ; Mr. J. Douglas 
Ogilby, Ireland; M. Emile Oustalet, Paris; Prof. J. A. Pal- 
m&n ; Mr. Harry Pryer, Yokohama, Japan ; Mr. Howard Saun- 
ders, London ; Mr. Henry Seebohm, London ; Mr. Leonhard 
Stejneger, Alaska ; Mr. Henry T. Wharton, London. 
Eighty-seven ornithologists of the United States and Canada 
were elected Associate Members. 
During the session of the Convention, aside from the work of 
organization and elections, committees were appointed by the 
Chair to take in hand the consideration of various important sub- 
jects, and to present reports upon them at the next annual meeting. 
The most important of these — U A Revision of the Classification 
