We would ourself like to say something of Audubon as a man. To us his life and character have a special charm. His was a beautiful youth, like that of Goethe. His love of nature, for which he was willing to make, and did make, sacrifices, will always be inspiring to the youth of noble and gentle proclivities; his personal beauty, his humanity, his lovelife, his domestic virtues, enthrall the ingenuous mind; and his appreciation — shown in his beautiful compositions — of the valleys of the great river, La Belle Riviere, through which its waters, shadowed by the magnificent forests of Ohio and Kentucky, wandered — all of these things have from youth up shed a sweet fragrance over his memory and added greatly to our admiration of and appreciation for the man.

So many subjects came before the Congress that we cannot hope to do more than mention the titles of a few of them. Mr. Sylvester D. Judd discussed the question of "Protective Adaptations of insects from an Ornithological Point of View"; Mr. William C. Rives talked of "Summer Birds of the West Virginia Spruce Belt"; Mr. John N. Clark read a paper entitled "Ten Days among the Birds of Northern New Hampshire"; Harry C. Oberholser talked extemporaneously of "Liberian Birds", and in a most entertaining and instructive manner, every word he said being worthy of large print and liberal embellishment.

Mr. J. A. Allen, editor of The Auk, said a great deal that was new and instructive about the "Origin of Bird Migration"; Mr. O. Widmann read an interesting paper on "The Great Roosts on Gabberet Island, opposite North St. Louis"; J. Harris Reed presented a paper on "The Terns of Gull Island, New York"; A. W. Anthony read of "The Petrels of Southern California", and Mr. George H. Mackay talked interestingly of "The Terns of Penikese Island, Mass".

There were other papers of interest and value. "A Naturalist's Expedition to East Africa," by D. G. Elliot, was, however, the piece de resisiance of the Congress. The lecture was delivered in the lecture hall of the Museum, on Wednesday at 8 p. m. It was illustrated by stereopticon views, and in the most remarkable manner. The pictures were thrown upon an immense canvas, were marvellously realistic, and were so much admired by the great audience, which overflowed the large lecture hall, that the word demonstrative does not describe their enthusiasm. But the lecture! Description, experience, suffering, adventure, courage, torrid heat, wild beasts, poisonous insects, venomous serpents, half-civilized peoples, thirst, — almost enough of torture to justify the use of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner in illustration, and yet a perpetual, quiet, rollicking, jubilant humor, all-pervading, and, at the close, on the lecturer's return once more to the beginning of civilization, the eloquent picture of the Cross, "full high advanced," all combined, made this lecture, to us, one of the very few platform addresses entirely worthy of the significance of unfading portraiture. — C. C. MARBLE.