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tee and the librarian in consultation to devise a plan for making the 

 library a more prominent feature of the society's activity. 



The satisfactory progress of the society during recent years which 

 I have endeavored to illustrate, has been due largely to the motherly 

 care of the American ]\Iuseum of Natural History, which has at dif- 

 ferent times allowed us to use various rooms in the museum as our 

 meeting place and finally our present luxurious quarters where we have 

 an abundance of room, light, warmth, current literature, use of library 

 and collection, and last but not least, this famous table about which 

 our entire membership can gather in dignity and comfort. Not only 

 on meeting nights are these advantages open to us free of cost, but 

 practically every day, Sundays and holidays included, whenever the 

 museum is open to the public our members can consult the local col- 

 lection, the library and the curator. We owe a lasting debt of grati- 

 tude to this museum and its trustees and officers, which I am happy 

 to say has been recognized by our members in donations of specimens 

 and other ways. 



Thus far I have spoken of the past and present of our society 

 and its journal. I wish now to refer briefly to the future. The 

 society will always need new members and young members. Every 

 year resignation and death remove men whose loss we keenly feel. 

 1910 was no exception to the rule, but unhappily witnessed the death 

 ■of our honored friend Zabriskie. The society can only keep its pres- 

 ent strength and gain more by the election of new members, and I 

 hope that each one of us will bear this in mind and propose some 

 young friend for membership during the year. 



The local collection will for a long time, perhaps always, need 

 donations of specimens and particularly of carefully labelled speci- 

 mens. There has been great progress in this respect since the days 

 when some of us were young, and a state label is no longer the satis- 

 fying adjunct to a specimen that it was in the days of Schaupp. 

 The system now recommended by our curator is one by which the 

 specimen in addition to its locality label bears a number which refers 

 to a field card upon which complete ecological data can be entered. 

 Copies of such cards can be had from the curator, and the free use 

 of them by our members will preserve a fund of information and 

 field experience which at present is largely lost. 



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