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Maine Woods and the Pocono Jlountains, Pa.," and " Exhibi- 

 tion of Lantern SHdes," Wm. L. Baily; " Andreje Hessalius, 

 Pioneer Delaware Ornithologist," C. J. Pennock; "Some Un- 

 published Letters of Wilson and Some Unstudied Works of 

 Audubon," "The Probability of Error in Bird Migration 

 Records," and "Applicability of the JIutation Theory to 

 Birds," Witraer Stone. ]Mr. Stone was appointed a member of 

 the committee to consider revision of the A. 0. U. Code of 



Nomenclature. 



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Thirty members and fourteen Corresponding members of the 

 D. V. 0. C. are members of the A. O. U. The total member- 

 .ship of the latter in Pennsylvania is 71 and in New Jersey 38, 

 of these 56 are resident, within twenty-five miles of Philadel- 

 phia. For the sake of comparison it may be added that the A. 

 0. \J. has 136 members in Massachusetts, 125 in New York — 

 70 in New York Citj^ ; and 53 in the District of Columbia. 



Members of the club made a number of trips during the year 

 especially during the summer holidays. Dr. Hughes has been 

 moose hunting in Nova Scotia, and Dr. Trotter spent the sum- 

 mer there ; Samuel N. Rhoads spent the early part of 1905 in 

 Southern California and Lower California, Stewardson Brown 

 was botanizing through August in the Bermudas and J. A. G. 

 Rehn was catching grasshoppers in Florida. G. S. Morris, I. 

 N. DeHaven and Guy Meyers have been shooting on the Vir- 

 ginia coast, and Stone and Coggins have been to Nantucket and 

 Martha's Vinyard, respectively, while Fowler and Keim have 

 been pursuing minnows through most of the streams of Maryland 

 and Southeastern Pennsylvania. The birds of the various coun- 

 ties of Pennsylvania have been studied diligently, Stone, Hughes 

 and Baily having been in Fulton, Morris in Sullivan, Harlow in 

 Pike, Fowler in Cameron, Carter, Baily, Weygandt and Stone 

 in Monroe, Rehn in Huntingdon and Brown in Fayette. 



