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President of the Nuttall Club, Secretary of the Boston Society of 
Natural History and a Fellow of the American Ornithologists’ Union. 
__ The lectures will be ten in number and will be illustrated by lantern 
slides and study material. In addition, the lectures will be sent out to 
subscribers as a Correspondence Course. These lectures will treat the 
subject systematically, and while neither too technical nor too ele- 
mentary, they will not be of a “popular” order. Those attending are 
expected to take full notes and at the close of the course to take a written 
examination, as are all those taking the Correspondence Course. A set 
of these lectures (100 pages or more) will constitute a valuable text- 
book on the subject. 
At the close of Dr. Allen’s course, an eleventh lecture will be given 
by Prof. Alfred O. Gross of Bowdoin College, for the purpose of indi- 
cating to bird-banders and bird-lovers how they can best assist the work 
in their respective fields. 
The lectures will be delivered in the Lecture-room of the Boston 
Society of Natural History, corner Boylston and Berkeley streets, Boston, 
at 7:45 P.M., beginning Tuesday, January 8, and continuing on succes- 
sive Tuesdays. 
Rueeeemrecture Course . ae. w $5.00 
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SeieeeorCotrespondence Course. . =. .  . 3.00 
The promoters of this course are confident that those who take it 
will find an increased enjoyment in their field excursions and in bird- 
banding, and more important still, will gain an added appreciation of 
the great abundance of ornithological problems waiting to be solved, 
problems on one or more of which every bird-student should take de- 
light in working. The New England Bird Banding Association offers 
this course not only for the pleasure it will give to bird-lovers but for 
the permanent profit to ornithology which it firmly believes will result 
from it. An application blank for the course is enclosed. 
New ENncLaAnpD Birp BANDING ASSOCIATION 
Boston, Mass. Laurence B. Fletcher, Secretary 
50 Congress St., Room 941 
Be is with great regret that we announce the sudden death at 
Philo, Illinois, on New Year’s Eve, of Isaac Hess, the well-known 
ornithologist and an important contributor to the columns of this 
Bulletin. In the next issue of this Bulletin will appear a biographical 
sketch of his life, together with an appreciation of his scientific writ- 
ings and of his contribution to the cause of protection of bird-life. 

