Notes and News
The 29th Annual Meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society will be held in Berkeley, California, on April 3 to 5, 1959, with the Northern Division as sponsor and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and the University of California as hosts. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. in room 2503, Life Sciences Building, Berkeley campus.
Dr. Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., well-known ornithologist and Audubon lecturer, will return to the University of Michigan Biological Station for the 1959 summer session after last summer’s absence to study birds in Iceland. Dr. Pettingill will teach introductory and advanced courses in ornithology at the Station, which is located near Mackinaw in Michigan.
The Division of Biological and Medical Sciences of the National Science Foundation announces that the next closing date for receipt of basic research proposals in the life sciences is May 15, 1959. Disposition of proposals received by that date will be made approximately four months later. The next closing date is September 15, 1959.
The Zoology Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, announces that the library of the late Arthur Cleveland Bent has been presented to the university by Mrs. Bent. The library will be housed as a memorial unit in the new Science Center now under construction and should be available for use by interested ornithologists some time in the spring of 1960.
