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THE eighth International Ornithological Congress is to be held at the University of Oxford in July 1934, under the presidency of Dr. E. Stresemann, of Berlin. The International Ornithological Congress was originally held every five years, but at the last Congress, at Amsterdam in 1930, when the president was Dr. E. Lonnberg of Sweden, it was decided to hold it every four years. The last meeting of the Ornithological Congress in England was at the Imperial Institute, London, in 1905, with Dr. R. B. Sharpe as president. In 1910 it was held in Berlin, and it was proposed to hold the 1915 Congress at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, but in the meantime the War broke out and no further Congress was held until 1926, when, mainly through the efforts of Dr. Ernst Hartet, keeper at Tring Museum, it was resumed at Copenhagen. Preliminary arrangements have already been made for the 1934 Congress at Oxford, and the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, of the British Ornithologists' Union, has been elected honorary secretary. Dr. P. R. Lowe, of the British Museum, has been elected chairman of the executive committee, which includes Lord Rothschild, Lord Scone, Dr. C. B. Ticehurst, Dr. Sclater, and Messrs. Stuart-Baker and H. F. Witherby, president of the British Ornithologists' Union.
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International Ornithological Congress. Nature 131, 902–903 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131902d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131902d0