5 . AMERICAN ORMtuojloGISTS. 
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Thlrteeniii Annual *(Jonffrex* of the 
Union Now in Session Here. 
VA^body Of learned men and women as¬ 
sembled this morning in the lecture hall of 
the National Museum to discuss birds. 
Those mentioned comprised the-American 
and ^R f^j preaent .aes- 
sion is the thirteenth annual congress of 
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.:When President William Brewster called 
:the union to order at .11 &’clock there were 
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[aj. C- E. Ben dire, Dr. Elliott Coues, Robt. 
Ridgeway, iTrank M. - Chapman, j John 
Sage, William*Butcher, D. G.. Elliott, Dr. 
A. K. Fisher, Dr. Theodore Gill, F. A. Lu- 
i cas, L. M. Loomis, -Dr. E. A. 31 earns. Geo. 
I B. Sea nett, Leonhard . Stejneger, Witmer 
> Stone; T. S. Palmer, G. S. Miller, jr., II- R. 
Taylor, Mrs. * Olive Thorne Miller, Chas. H. 
Townsend, Harry C. ObeTholser, Charles W. 
S tichmond, Wm. Palmer, Frank H. Knowl- 
on, E. A. Preble, Vernon Bailey, Jewell 
D. Sornborger, S.. D.- Judd,'Prof. F. E. L. 
Beal, Outram Bangs, W.. E. Clyde Todd and 
others. 
Dr. Cones’ Exhibit. 
After a brief -business session, during 
which a proposed-amendment to the con¬ 
stitution providing for seventy-five active 
y members instead of fifty as at present, was 
I considered. President Brewster introduced 
I Dr. Elliott Coues,’who exhibited a number 
1 of unpubished water - color paintings of 
birds by Louis A. Fuertes, a student at 
Cornell .’University. Dr. Coues made the 
exhibit doubly interesting by explanatory- 
remarks. During the remainder of the 
morning session papers were read by sever¬ 
al members. r •’ - 
-The sessions are to be continued tomor¬ 
row and Thursday, the hours decided upon 
being 11 to 1 and 2 to 4 . This evening a 
especial session is to he held at 8 o’clock. 
■ when two memorial addresses are/ to be 
delivered, one by Dr. Elliott Coues cn the 
la.te Thomas H. Huxley, and the other by 
,D. J. Elliott on the late -George N. Law¬ 
rence.'- All the sessions are open to the 
[public. * 
Officers Elected. 
The annual business meeting of the union 
was held last evening at the residence of 
;X)r. C. Hart Merriam, “3910 lGth street 
northwest." Very little of an important 
nature -was transacted except the election 
_of ' officers, which- resulted as follows: 
William Brewster of Cambridge, - Mass., 
[president; C. Hart Merriam and Robert 
Rirgway, both of Washington, vice presi¬ 
dents; John H. Sage of Portland, -Corn., 
secretary, - and William Dutcher of New 
;York city, treasurer.. President Brewster 
is recognized as one of the most disun- 
Led ornithologists of the day. 
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