Bird Club Notes 



The early portraits of Dr. Woodhouse which appear in this 

 number are reproduced from photographs taken from daguerreo- 

 tj'pes kindly loaned for the purpose by Dr. Samuel W. Wood- 

 house, Jr., to whom we are also indebted for the privilege of 

 consulting the manuscript journals kept by his father while on 



his several expeditions. 



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Sixteen meetings of the Club were held during 1904, with an 

 average attendance of twenty-three. Fifty-three members were 

 present at one or more meetings. 



The meeting of October 6 — the 250th — was attended by 

 thirty-seven members, the largest number ever recorded. 



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Early in the present year Mr. Charles J. Pennock was ap- 

 pointed Ornithologist to the Delaware State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, and through his efforts we may soon hope to have reliable 

 accounts of the birds of this ornithologically neglected state. 



As is well known, ornithology is often the first field of activity 

 of scientists who are later diverted to other lines of research. 

 The D. V. 0. C. has two notable instances in Henry W. Fowler 

 and James A. G. Rehn, who are gaining prominence respectively 

 for their work on Fishes and Orthoptera. Mr. Fowler has 

 already published thirty-three papers with descriptions of 

 eighty-eight new species of fishes, many illustrated by plates of 

 much merit from his own brush. Mr. Rehn has published 

 thirty-seven contributions to our knowledge of Grasshoppers 

 and their kin, and upwards of 130 new species are credited to 

 him. 



In the field of literature, a noteworthy contribution from a 

 member of the D. V. 0. C. is " A Selborne Pilgrimage," in the 



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