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one individual. The results of tliis co-operation are to be seen 

 in the migration reports, as well as in most of the papers in the 

 present number of Cassinia, notably that on Crow Roosts, the 

 Dickcissel and the Red-headed Woodpecker. 



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The Spencer F. Baird Club has held its meetings regularly 

 throughout the year and reports a very successful season. The 

 present officers are : President, Mrs. Edward Robins ; Secretary, 

 Mrs. Harry L. Davis ; Treasurer, Mrs. William Channing 



Russel. 



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The National Committee of the Audubon Societies met at the 

 residence of Mrs. Edward Robins, Philadelphia, November 18, 

 1903, with delegates representing fourteen state societies. 



The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society 

 has been postponed this year until Spring. 



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November 16-19, 1903, the American Ornithologists' Union 

 convened in Philadelphia for the second time on the occasion 

 of its twenty-first annual Congress. There were in attendance 

 nineteen Fellows, one Corresponding Fellow, fifteen Members 

 and forty-eight Associates, a total of eighty-three j the largest 

 meeting ever held. 



The D. V. 0. C. contributed the following papers: 



"New Bird Studies in Old Delaware," Samuel N. Rhoads 

 and Charles J. Pennock. 



"Exhibition of Lantern Slides of Young Raptorial Birds 

 Photographed by Thos. H. Jackson, near West Chester, Pa.," 

 Witmer Stone. 



"Some Nova Scotia Birds," Spencer Trotter, M. D. 



"Some Birds of Northern Chihuahua," William E. Hughes, 

 M. D. 



"Ten Days in North Dakota," William L. Baily. 



"Two Neglected Ornithologists — John K. Townsend and 

 William Gambel," Witmer Stone. 



" Bird Life at Cape Charles, Va.," George Spencer Morris. 



Dr. Samuel Woodhouse was elected a Corresponding Fellow, 

 George Spencer Morris a Member, and Rev. J. H. Hackenberg 

 and Anthony W. Robinson Associates. 



