Bird Club Notes 



Our half-tone of Bartram is from Welcli's engraving of the 

 portrait by Charles Wilson Peale, while that of the house is 

 'roni an original pencil sketch by George Spencer Morris. 



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The Club held sixteen meetings during the year, with an 

 average attendance of twenty-four, fortj- members being present 

 at one or more meetings. 



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Mrs. Edward Robins, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Audubon 

 Society and President of the Spencer F. Baird Ornithological 

 Club, died at Chelsea, N. J., on July 2, 1906. 



Mrs. Robins' earnest work for the protection of birds and 

 inimals as well as her efforti< to promote the study of orni- 

 thology in Philadelphia and its vicinity are well known to the 

 members of the Club, and her place will be difficult to fill. 



As Miss Julia Stockton Hopkins her early life was spent on 

 her father's estate at Torresdale on the Delaware river above 

 Philadelphia. Here she developed her great love for "birds 

 and nature, and with the aid of Audubon's work became 

 familiar with all the commoner birds of the neighborhood. 

 After her marriage to Edward Robins, the well-known author, 

 she continued her ornithological studies and published a num- 

 ber of excellent articles on the habits of our wild birds, mainly 

 in the "West Chester Village Record" and the "Observer." 

 With the revival of the Audubon Society movement in 1896 she 

 organized the Pennsylvania Society and was indefatigable in ad- 

 vancing its work. She was also a member of the Bird Protec- 

 tion Committee of the A. O. U. for several years, and after 

 joining the Union maintained an active correspondence with 

 many ornithologists in different parts of the country. As the 

 friend of everyone interested in birds her loss will be widely felt. 



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