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sold, and the following members of the Cooper Ornithological Club are among the present subscribers: A. B. Howell Mrs. William R. Myers Charles Irvin Clay John W. MailHard A.M. Ingersoll David Starr Jordan Annie M. Alexander J. Eugene Law John RowIcy F. E. Newbury Antonin Jay Howard Robertson W. Lee Chambers Donald R. Dickey G. Frean Morcom Virgil W. Owen N.K. Carpenter W.B. Judson Frank C. Wffiard Elizabeth Day Palmer Jas. H. Gaut O. W. Howard Howard W. Wr/ght Harry J. Lelande C.B. Linton Sunset Edition De Luxc, limited to 250 copies. Exactly like the preceding except that it is in three-quarter binding, and has only 30 full-page photographs. This is a worthy and durable form and will become our leader as soon as the subscription list to ttle Stock- holders' Edition is completed. The price is $110. Subscription list is now open. Only four sold. Large Paper Edition De Luxe, limited to 250 copies. O.f the same general propor- tions as the two foregoing, and conserving their essential art values at a minimum of cost. Paper and press-work exactly as before, but binding of the simplest sort, gray boards and paper label, and the full-page photographs sacrificed. Will contain the entire series of color-plates,' however extended. Purchasers who regard this valuable feature should not fail to secure at least this edition. Net weight about 32 pounds. Price $67.50. Among the early subscribers are the following Cooper Club members. H. W. Cartiger Adrlaan Van Rossem H.S. Gane R. H. Bennett Maunsell S. Crosby William Frederic Bade J. R. Pendleton E.S. Spattiding W.B. Mershon Booklovers' Edition, limited to 500 copies. Involves a change of format and substan- tial reduction in bulk, being printed on thinner paper 7? by 10 3-8 inches in size, and necessitating the sacrifice of the larger color-plates and photogravures,--48 of the former and 12 of the latter retained. Handsomely bound in ? Levant leather, and very satisfactory for those who dislike heavy volumes. The set of three volumes will weigh about 19 pounds. Price $45. Cooper Clnb subscribers: J. Grinnell Frank S. Daggett H.C. Tracy H. S. Swarth W.K. Fisher Charles A. Kofoid W, P. Taylor G. Willett Harold C. Bryant Albert E. Colburn Students' Edition, in three volumes. A proposed popular edition of ordinary quality wherein only the value of the text is to be regarded. Prices will run from $20 in cloth to $30 in full leather. Sfibscription list not yet opened. Fuller announcement later. CHARACTER AND CLAIMS For those not already acquainted with Mr. Dawson's work we submit a few extracts from reviews and letters which appear to justify our high expectations of this final effort. O[ '?The Birds o{ Ohio" (1903). "The most attractive and valuable work on the birds of a single State which has yet appeared". --Frank M. Chapman Of "The Bird* of ?Vdshington" (Two volumes, 1909). "The work as a whole and in derall is a model of its kind". --Robert Ridgway "A handsome work creditable alike to the author and his various collaborators, to the publishers, and to the State whose birds are here so effectively depicted". "It is certainly a magnificent work". "Exceedingly interesting". "There is not a 'dry' page in the book". "A magnificent piece of bookmaking". "The most attractive and delightful of them all". "The book is wonderful". --J. A. Allen in The Auk --William L. Finley --John Lewis Childs ?A. W. Anthony ?Dr. T. S. Palmer --Rev. P. B. Peabody --Col. John E. Thayer "The work is an ideal of artistic taste and elegant bookmaking". "I am delighted with them". --Joseph Grinnell in Th? Condor --Theodore Roosevelt