Bird Club Notes 



For the portrait of John K. Townsend which appears as a 

 frontispiece to this number of Cassinia we are indebted to his 

 brother-in-law, Dr. Mahlon Kirk, of Oakdale, Maryland, who 

 courteously loaned us a daguerreotype, probably the only like- 

 ness of Townsend now extant. From this an excellent photo- 

 graph was made by Mr. H. Parker Rolfe, of Philadelphia. We 

 are fortunate in having the assurance of Dr. Kirk and Dr. S. W. 

 Woodhouse as to the faithfulness of the likeness, which is sup- 

 posed to have been taken when Townsend was about twenty- 

 eight or thirty years of age. 



For the use of the Crow Roost photographs we are indebted 



to Mr. Charles D. Kellogg, who took these remarkable pictures, 



and to ^Ir. Frank M. Chapman, Editor of Bird Lore, who 



kindly loaned us the half-tone blocks, previously used in his 



magazine. 



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Fifteen meetings of the Club were held during 1903. The 

 average attendance was twenty-one; forty-eight members being 

 present at one or more meetings. 



The average attendance for the past seven years — one hun- 

 dred and ten meetings — has been twenty. 



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The primary object in the organization of the Delaware Valley 

 Ornithological Club in 1890 was co-operation. Happily this 

 fact has ever been kejDt prominently in view and its develop- 

 ment has to-day reached a point not hitherto attained in the 

 history of the organization. With one hundred and six mem- 

 bers and twenty-three additional observers in the Bird Migration 

 Corps, we have a body of students scattered over eastern Penn- 

 sylvania and New Jersey whose combined observation.s upon any 

 species of bird or upon any phase of bird-life are bound to form 

 a far more comprehensive treatise than could be prepared by any 



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