4 NEBRASKA ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION 



the Secretary and the candidates were, on motion of I. S. Trostler, 

 declared elected. 



The Corresponding- Secretary reported the election of the following 

 officers for the ensuing year, as a result of the recent ballot: President, 

 J. M. Bates, Callaway; Vice-President, Mrs. George H. Payne, Omaha; 

 Corresponding Secretary, J. C. Crawford, Jr., West Point; Recording 

 Secretary, E. H. Wolcott, Lincoln; Treasurer, August Eiche, Lincoln; 

 Executive Committee, H. B. Ward, Lincoln, H. M. Benedict, Omaha, and 

 Merritt Cary, Neligh. 



The Recording Secretary iJresented a brief report in behalf of the 

 Executive Committee, and also reported on the publication of the Pro- 

 ceedings, in which task he acknowledged the assistance of several other 

 members of the Union, and in which he recorded the gift to the Union, 

 by the authors, of the plates used in illustrating the articles of Eliza- 

 beth Van Sant and F. H. Shoemaker. 



The following committees were announced by the chair: Auditing 

 committee, J. M. Bates, L S. Trostler, M. A. Carriker, Jr.; committee on 

 resolutions, H. B. Ward, August Eiche, J. C. Crawford, Jr. 



At 12 m. the Union adjourned to meet again at 2:30 p. m., in Room 

 301, Hall of Mechanic Arts, and to listen to the program of papers, pre- 

 ceded by the delivery of the President's address, on "The Progenitors of 

 Birds," illustrated by the stereopticon. About fifty members and others 

 were in attendance. 



After the comjDletion of the program and discussions a short business 

 session was held at which the auditing committee and the committee 

 on resolutions reported and the President announced the appointment 

 of the following permanent committee on the birds of the state: E,. H. 

 Wolcott, L. Bruner, T. S. Trostler, M. A. Carriker, Jr., M. H. Swenk, F. 

 H. Shoemaker, J. A. Dickinson. 



The minutes of the meeting- were read and approved and the new 

 President, J. M. Bates, formally presented to the Union, after which 

 the society adjourned, at 5:30 p. m., to partake of a supper, and later, 

 in the evening, to enjoy lantern slides exhibited by Lawrence Bruner. 

 M. A. Carriker, Jr., I. S. Tl-ostler, and F. H. Shoemaker. 



RoBEBT H. Wolcott, 



Recording Secretary 



