May 30 Providence to Guadaloupe species. These are to be all displayed, as many as already. Met Mrs. Fanny Hardy Eckstorm, who is installing her father's collection. She wrote a book on the woodpeckers and evidently knows a very great deal of systematic ornithology. She makes very positive statements about things, which are sometimes amazingly erroneous. May 31 Mus. Comp. Zool.: Cambridge.— Mr. Bangs has Melospiza m. mexicana to exchange for California subspecies. Get J. Mailhond to send in-the-flesh to me vs some mailliardi for Bangs. See if we have riuralaris. Bangs has a very good scheme of collection arrangement. at