SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 17 



This club was organized in Philadelphia, February 3, 1890, with 7 

 members. The oflficers at that time were Wm. L. Bailej*, Pres., and 

 S. M. Rhoads, Sec.-Treas. In 1892 there were 9 active and 17 associate 



• members and in 1898 there were 14 active, 42 associate, and 21 corres- 

 ponding members. The dues are $2.00 per annum for active and $L00 

 ior associate members. Meetings are held twice each month, from 

 October to May inclusive, in the Ornithological Room of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia. 



The publications issued bj- this club up to this time are: Abstracts 

 of Proceedings of the DelaAvare Valley Ornithological Club for 1890-91; 



-the same for 1892-97; and the same for 1898-99. The Birds of Eastern 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersej- (185 pp., frontispiece and 2 maps). 



THE NEBRASKA ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION 



In .January, 1894,1 published a notice in the Oologist of Albion, New York, 

 requesting Nebraskans interested in ornithology- and oology to send 



. me their addresses. I received replies to this notice from C. C. and M. 

 Pew, Hebron; J. S. and A. Pyfer, Odell; L. J. Pickett, Wahoo; R. S. 

 Waugh, Plattsmouth; F. C. Bececke, Chadron; H. W. Kerr, Hastings; 



.A. Wilson Tout, Riverton; J. A. Dickinson, Gresham; and one or two 

 others. I corresponded with these with reference to meeting at some 

 central point for the purpose of forming a state organization but for 

 various reasons we could not "get together." In 1895 I again essayed the 

 l»ringing together of these bird students for this purpose, and as before 

 I failed. 



In. XS96 I tried to arrange for a meeting during the State Fair in 

 Omaha, but I could not secure enough who would promise to be here 

 .at one time to secure a representative meeting, so I let the matter rest 

 until earh^ in 1898, when I wrote to about twenty-five ornithologists in 

 this state asking if they could and would try to visit the Trans-Missis- 

 sippi Exposition at a time suitable to the largest number so that we 

 could have a meeting and organize. I also had a notice to this effect pub- 

 lished in the Musevni, of Albion, New York, and in the Osprey for Aiiril and 

 May, 1898. A number of those written to replied to my letters, but their 

 dates were qtiite various, and as most of them could not be changed I 

 :finally concluded that it would be useless to try and organize in this way. 

 A number of these persons called upon me during the summer of 1898 

 while visiting the Exposition and all of them seemed to favor the 

 organization of a state association. 



In May, 1899. after a short correspondence, J. R. Eonwell and M. A. 

 Carriker, of Nebraska City; J. A. Dickinson, of Gresham, F. H, Shoe- 

 maker, Miss van Sant, and mj^self, of Omaha, arranged a preliminary 

 organization, which was named the Nebraska Ornithologists' Associa- 

 tion. Aboiit this time the existence of the Nebraska Ornithological 

 •Ckib of Lincoln, which had been organized about three months be- 

 fore, was brought to our notice by Dr. Wolcott and Prof. Bruner, and 



