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444 entries, showing the work of about fifty artists in oil, water colours, 
tempera, pastel, etchings, and line drawings, with thirteen photographers 
in addition to thirty-seven artists included in the following list: 
William J. Belcher (Fiji) Claude Edward Johnson 
Richard Evett Bishop John G. Keulemans (1842-1912) 
Allan Cyril Brooks Bruno Liljefors (Sweden) 
Charles Livingstone Bull George Edward Lodge (England) 
F. Cheverlange (Fiji) A. Miles 
Adrian Collaert (ca. 1580) John Guille Millais (England) 
John Templeton Coolidge, Jr R. C. Patterson 
Henry Carey Denslow Karl Plath 
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Earl Lincoln Poole 
W T illiam Giles W. E. Powell 
Henrik Gronvold (England) John Livzey Ridgway 
Lady Elizabeth Gwillim (FI. 1801-06) Robert Ridgway 
Charles Hayes (fl. 1808-16). Edmund Joseph Sawyer 
William Hayes (fl. 1729-1799) Will Simmons 
Frank Charles Hennessey George Mihsch Sutton 
Robert Bruce Horsfall Albert E. Ward (Fiji) 
Lynn Bogue Hunt Joseph W r olf (1820-1899) 
Francis Lee Jaques 
The most noteworthy pictures were the historical collection loaned by 
the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology of McGill University; a 
collection of sixteen water colours by Joseph Wolf, the pioneer of accurate 
bird portraiture, loaned by Dame Alice Godman of England; a large 
collection of Ridgway an a, including a large series of original drawings by 
Robert Ridgway, the dean of North American ornithology, showing his 
development from boyhood to recent times; a large collection in different 
media by John G. Millais and George Edward Lodge, two of the leading 
modern British bird artists; and two large collections of paintings by 
Major Allan Brooks, including the one hundred originals prepared for 
“Birds of Western Canada,” issued during the year by the Museum, and a 
special collection of thirty-two larger paintings by Brooks, assembled by 
Wallace Havelock Robb of Belleville. Bruno Liljefors of Sweden con- 
tributed a series of photographs of his more recent large paintings, and 
Johannes Larsen of Denmark sent a fine collection of paintings of birds in 
typical Danish landscapes. 
Representatives were present at the meeting from eighteen states, the 
District of Columbia, and seven provinces of Canada, including all the 
region from the gulf of St. Lawrence to Potomac and Ohio rivers and from 
the Atlantic coast to Mississippi river except New Brunswick, Prince 
Edward Island, Rhode Island, and Delaware. In addition, representatives 
were present from four provinces and four states in the w T est and south: 
Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and California, 
Missouri, South Carolina, and West Virginia. The largest delegations 
outside of Ontario came from Quebec, Massachusetts, New York, Penn- 
sylvania, and the District of Columbia. Although the total attendance 
was somewhat smaller than that in New York the year before it was more 
generally distributed and represented one more state and five more Cana- 
dian provinces than were present at the meeting of 1925. 
Fourteen natural history museums were represented by one or more 
of their members, viz.: American Museum of Natural History (New 
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