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held regular meetings during the past year — except the summer 

 months — at which many original papers were presented. Ad- 

 dresses have also been delivered before the Club, on special in- 

 vitation, by Dr. Charles C. Abbott, Mr. H. C. Oberholser, Mr. 

 A. Radclyffe Dugmore and Mr. Witmer Stone. 



The officers for the ensuing year are: President, Miss Eliza- 

 beth Wilson Fisher; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Mary Parker 

 Nicholson; Corresponding Secretarj', Mrs. Edw. Robins. 



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The Pennsylvania Audubon Society has been doing excellent 

 work in the interest of bird protection during the year, 

 especially on educational lines. A free traveling library on 

 birds and nature was established, and ten sets of ten books each 

 are now circulating among the schools of the State which have 

 not access to large pul)lic libraries. The annual meeting was 

 held at the Academy of Natural Sciences as usual, and Mr. W. 

 L. Baily made an address on "The Gulls and Terns of the 

 Maine Coast," illustrated by lantern slides. The officers for 

 1902 are: President, Witmer Stone; Secretary, Mrs. Edward 

 Robins; Treasurer, 'William L. Baily. 



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At the annual congress of the A. O. U., held in New York 

 City, November, 1901, five Delaware Valley Club men were 

 elected to the new class of Members intermediate between the 

 Fellows and Associates, viz., Charles J. Pennock, Samuel N. 

 Rhoads, William L. Baily, Dr. Spencer Trotter and W. E. 

 Clyde Todd, as well as Frank L. Burns, of Berwyn, who was for- 

 merly a member of our Club. L. I. Smith, Jr. , and J. A. G. Rehn 

 were elected Associates. Mr. Baily was re-appointed a member 

 of the Committee on Bird Protection and Mr. Stone, who 

 resigned the chairmanship of this committee, was appointed a 

 member of the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature. 



