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their first meeting, and have, we believe, decided on a plan of 
action. They will, however, be glad to receive suggestions 
from any member of the B. O. U., or other ornithologist, 
which may be addressed to the Secretary of the B. O. U. 
at 6 Tenterden Street. 
Dresser^s ^ Birds of Europe/ —^So many ornithologists are 
interested in this important work, that we are pleased to be 
able to give the following particulars concerning the pros¬ 
pects of its completion. Sixty-six parts have been issued 
up to the present time, and parts 67 and 68 are ready, all 
but the plates. It will take about six more parts to com¬ 
plete the work, and these will (barring accidents) be issued 
before the close of the year. Mr. Wolf has contributed 
several sketches, and Mr. Neale a few; and these, with 
what Mr. Keulemans has lately done, will, it is believed, 
keep the illustrations going. When the regular numbers 
are finished, there will still remain the introduction, general 
index, &c., together with a small supplement to correct 
errors and add additional information lately received. This, 
which it will take several months to prepare, it is pui’- 
posed to issue in a thin volume, which will be so far useful 
that it will be available as an index, without having to take 
down every volume when hunting for a reference. In the 
meanwhile, the main portion of the work can be arranged and 
bound according to the instructions which will be issued 
with the last part. 
The Dyke-Road Museum, Brighton. —No naturalist who 
goes to Brighton should omit to visit Mr. E. T. Boothes new 
museum in the Dyke Boad. It contains a series of about 300 
cases of British birds. Each species is placed in a separate 
case, and the specimens (male, female, young, and often nest 
and eggs) are arranged in what the owner considers to be their 
natural attitudes, with imitations of appropriate scenery in the 
background, often copied from the actual spot in which the 
specimens themselves were procured. The most wonderful 
