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Ninth International Ornithological Congress

THE ninth International Ornithological Congress, which will be attended by ornithologists from every part of the the world, will be held in Rouen on May 9—14. Later, the members of the Congress will proceed to Paris and the programme will terminate with a long excursion to the bird reserves in the Camargue. All questions concerning the preservation of birds will be dealt with at the meetings of the International Committee for Bird Preservation, which will be held immediately before the Congress. These meetings are confined to the official delegates of the national sections, which are operating in twenty-eight different countries, of the Committee. In connexion with the Congress an international exhibition of bird pictures is being held in Paris on May 14—29. British ornithological art will be represented by the works of Roland Green, G. E. Lodge, Peter Scott, Archibald Thorburn (lent by Messrs. W. F. Embleton) and A. W. Seaby (lent by Mr. A. W. Harvey Brown, Stevens and Brown Gallery).

The Fifty-Fifth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union

THE second Charleston meeting,-held November 15-19, 1937, was well attended by members and visitors from widely separated places. Headquarters were at the Fort Sumter Hotel and most of the business sessions were held there. The public sessions were held at the Charleston Museum. Business Sessions.-The meetings on Monday, November 15, included two sessions of the Council, a meeting of the Fellows at 4 p. m., and a meeting of the Fellows and Members at 8 p. m. At the meeting of the Fellows, Ernst Mayr and Mrs. Margaret Morse Nice were elected to fill vacancies in the list and Dr. R. A. Falla of New Zealand was named as a Corresponding Fellow. At the evening meeting, attended by twenty-two Fellows and twenty-four Members, six Members were added to the list. The elections resulted in the addition of two Fellows, one Corresponding Fellow, six Members and 238 Associates. Herbert Friedmann succeeded A. C. Bent as President. J. L. Peters became the second Vice-President. J. Van Tyne, Hoyes Lloyd, T. S. Palmer and Robert C. Murphy, were added to the Council. Dr. T. S. Palmer retired as Secretary of 'The Union' after twenty years of service. His report indicated that the list of members in 1937 was about double that in 1917 when he assumed office. No changes were made in the other officers. The award of the Brewster Medal was made to Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy in recognition of his work on the Oceanic Birds of South America. Hereafter, this award will be made annually, instead of every two years as heretofore. Authorization was voted for the appointment of an active committee to canvass the situation relative to the development of an endowment fund. The following delegates were appointed to represent the Union at the Ninth International Ornithological Congress at Rouen, France, in May 1938: Alexander Wetmore, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the United States National Museum, Chairman of the Delegation; James P. Chapin, Associate Curator of Continental Old World Birds, The American Museum of Natural History, New York City; James Cowan Greenway, Jr., Assistant Curator of Birds, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Lawrence E. Hicks, Bureau of the Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, Columbus, Ohio; T. Gilbert Pearson, President Emeritus, National Association of Audubon Societies, New York City. Authorization was given to invite the Congress to meet in America in 1942. It was voted to hold the 1939 meeting in California and the 1938 meeting

British Trust for Ornithology

FIELD ornithologists in the British Isles are making an experiment in co-operative research which, if successful, may have far-reaching implications. They have a peculiar problem to deal with, partly because the great majority of them are not trained men of science, and yet are being led on to territory where an advanced scientific technique is essential. Some of the combined operations recently carried out have been on an impressive scale. The census of heronries in 1928 needed some five hundred observers before it was completed, while the great crested grebe inquiry of 1931 and the two-year woodcock inquiry now in progress have each enlisted more than a thousand observers. Naturally such work calls for a high degree of organisation, but until very recently British field ornithologists as such possessed no national organisation whatever. Irreplaceable manuscripts, field-notes, photographs, maps and collections of literature or bibliography were got together and dispersed according to the hazards of individual existence. A number of prominent ornithologists, including Mr. H. F. Witherby, president of the British Ornithologists' Union and editor of British Birds, Prof. Julian Huxley, the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, secretary of last year's International Ornithological Congress, and Dr. P. R. Lowe of the British Museum, combined to fill this gap by forming tha British Trust for Ornithology as a permanent national trustee for the interests of field ornithologists. The Trust itself holds capital funds and assets in kind, such as a library, and collects subscriptions, which enable it to make grants for ornithological research. These grants, which at present are only on a very small scale, are being used to develop the nucleus of an Institute of Field Ornithology at Oxford, recognised and administered by the University. A national planning committee for the ornithological programme as a whole has been set up jointly by the Trust and the University.

The VIIth International Ornithological Congress

IbisVolume 75, Issue 4 p. 817-817 The VIIth International Ornithological Congress First published: October 1933 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1933.tb03371.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume75, Issue4October 1933Pages 817-817 RelatedInformation

International Ornithological Congress at Copenhagen

THE sixth International Ornithological Congress was held in Copenhagen on May 24-29, Dr. Ernst Hartert being the president. It should have taken place in Sarajevo in 1915, but, this being impossible, Copenhagen was chosen, where local ornithologists, Herr Lehn Schiöler, Prof. Wesenberg-Lund, and Mr. Bovien, the secretary, made excellent arrangements. The meetings took place in the splendid rooms of the Parliament Building (in the Christiansborg castle), kindly put at the disposal of the Congress by the Danish Government. More than 200 members were announced, but only 164 actually attended. Nearly all European countries were represented, as well as the United States of America, Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Cuba, India and Japan. Next to Denmark, Germany was by far the most strongly represented country, and 18 British members were present.

International Congresses on Ornithology and Tropical Agriculture

WE have received the announcement that the fifth International Ornithological Congress will meet in Berlin from May 30 to June 4 inclusive. Its success seems already ensured by the large number of distinguished ornithologists (representing twenty-three countries) who have intimated their intention of attending. According to the programme, the congress will assemble in the “Festsaal” of the Zoological Gardens, and its sectional meetings will be held in the Landwehroffizier-Kasino, close to the Zoological Gardens station of the State railway, where also will be installed on May 29 and following days the business bureau. The president designate is the distinguished professor of the Berlin Natural History Museum, Dr. Anton Reichenow, the subject of whose opening address is “Uber die Fortschritte und den gegenwärtigen Stand der Ornithologie.” In the ordinary course he would have been introduced by the retiring president, the late Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, and the absence of this genial personality, so familiar at these triennial congresses, cannot but cast a shadow over the meeting. The congress is divided into practically the same sections as at its last meeting:—systematic ornithology, anatomy, palæontology, geographical distribution; migration; biology and oology; bird protection; aviculture and acclimatisation; and economic ornithology. Many important papers are already announced by, among others, the president, Count v. Berlepsch, Herr Csörgey, Dr. Eckstein, Dr. Hartert, Dr. Helms, Herr Nehrkorn, Prof. Neumann, Hon. Walter Rothschild, Dr. Thienemann, and Prof. Virchow. Visits to the following places of interest have been arranged:— on Monday afternoon to the Havelsee, at the invitation of the German Ornithological Society; on Thursday morning to the Zoological Gardens, with lunch to follow; on Friday to the Natural History Museum, or a motor trip round Berlin for those who prefer it. On the evening of Tuesday there will be a kinematograph exhibition of bird pictures at the “Urania” Society's rooms. On Wednesday evening the city will entertain the members and their wives, and on Friday evening the customary banquet will take place in the Zoological Gardens. After the close of the congress excursions will be arranged, if sufficient members apply, to the observation station at Rossitten and to the experimental protection station at Seebach. The subscription for. full membership is 20 marks, and for lady associates who do not desire the publications 10 marks. The secretary's address is 43 Invalidenstrasse, Berlin N. 4.

Proceedings of the Fourth International Ornithological Congress, London, June, 1905, forming Vol xiv of the “Ornis”

Proceedings of the Fourth International Ornithological Congress, London, June, 1905, forming Vol xiv of the “Ornis”

The Fourth International Ornithological Congress

IbisVolume 47, Issue 4 p. 622-629 The Fourth International Ornithological Congress First published: October 1905 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1905.tb07792.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume47, Issue4October 1905Pages 622-629 RelatedInformation

The Fourth International Ornithological Congress

THE International Ornithological Congress assembled in London on Monday, June 12, under the presidency of Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, and continued in session to the end of the week. The congress was instituted at Vienna in 1887 under the patronage of the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria. The second congress was held at Buda-Pesth, and the third at Paris in 1901, so that the London congress was the fourth of the series. It was well attended by both British and foreign ornithologists—to the number of rather more than 300. They commenced their work on June 12 by an informal meeting at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, which was the headquarters of the congress during its session.

Newton on 'Fossil Birds' Fossil Birds. From the Forthcoming "Dictionary of Birds." Delivered before the Second International Ornithological Congress, on the 18 May, 1891 Alfred Newton

Newton on 'Fossil Birds' Fossil Birds. From the Forthcoming "Dictionary of Birds." Delivered before the Second International Ornithological Congress, on the 18 May, 1891 Alfred Newton

Sharpe's 'Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds' A Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds; An Address Delivered before the Second International Ornithological Congress on the 18th of May, 1891 R. Bowdler Sharpe

Sharpe's 'Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds' A Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds; An Address Delivered before the Second International Ornithological Congress on the 18th of May, 1891 R. Bowdler Sharpe

On Recent Advances in our Knowledge of the Geographical Distribution of Birds.

IbisVolume 33, Issue 4 p. 514-557 On Recent Advances in our Knowledge of the Geographical Distribution of Birds. , Search for more papers by this author , Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1891 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1891.tb08581.x †Slightly modified from an Address to the Second ^International Ornithological Congress at Budapest in May 1891 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume33, Issue4October 1891Pages 514-557 RelatedInformation