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While upon the first trip, the club elected officers, Presi- 

 dent, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. There were 

 fourteen members. 



On the ten trips there was an average attendance of nine. 

 This low average was doubtless caused by the fact that several 

 of the boys went to the country for a period of weeks. Five of 

 the boys so doing were anxious to retain their places and asked 

 to be promised a chance to continue the trips upon their return 

 to the city. In at least one case one boy did not go on the 

 longer trips, because his parents were afraid for him to go so 

 far away from home. 



On the long trips the boys were expected to pay but a 

 small part of their fare, a fund having been raised to defray 

 expenses. For the ten trips the average transportation expense 

 to each boy was twenty-nine cents for those paying full fare, and 

 fifteen cents for those paying half-fare. 



Mr. Finley, who had immediate charge of this work, has 

 prepared the following outline report: 



FIRST TRIP — JACKSON PARK 



The first trip was taken to Jackson Park, the main object 

 being to study woodland and marsh birds. The boys were 

 fairly well acquainted with the former, but the marsh birds were 

 new to them. Among the marsh birds seen were: spotted sand- 

 piper, Virginia rail, long-billed marsh wren, red-winged black- 



