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collecting were issued to seven hundred and eighty-three individ- 

 uals, from which figure it is evident that " the army of collectors " 

 has dwindled to an almost negligible few. 



Although it has been generally conceded that the last wild 

 buffalo had disappeared from the American continent, the Cana- 

 dian government sent an expedition to investigate the tales told 

 by Indians of a large herd in the remote north. F. H. Kitto of 

 the Canadian Department of the Interi(»r, who headed the expe- 

 dition, located a herd of approximately a thousand and secured 

 photographs of them. The herd was found in the district south of 

 Great Slave Lake an^ west of the Slave River. This herd brings 

 the known number of buffalo in North Amei'ica up to nearly ten 

 thousand. 



At the recent meeting Dr. Bales was drawn into relating some 

 of his experiences among the tidal marshes of the Virginia coast, 

 where he is wont to hie himself each June. One day, relates the 

 Doctor, he left his balky guide in the boat and waded alone, deep 

 into the quaking morass, In search of a colony of Laughing Gulls. 

 Like a rainbow questrist he was drawn on and on, zigzagging erst- 

 while to keep within his depth, until finally he came upon the col- 

 ony. Until now he had given little thought to his return, and a 

 downpour had set in, with no more to guide him than the wav- 

 ing sawgrass, he vainly tried to retrace his steps. His load was 

 as heavy as his lega were weary and with the tide rising he began 

 to wonder what Mrs. Bales and the boys at home would do with 

 his big egg collection. He floundered on and on until his recol- 

 lection of passing events became very hazy. However, he recalls 

 that when the guide finally dragged him over the gunwale he sur- 

 veyed his sorry plight and gurgled out, in words of Mother Goose, 

 "Lawk a mercy me, can this be I?" 



ANNUAL MEETING 



The seventh annual meeting of The Wilson Ornithological 

 Club was held at Chicago, 111., on December 27 and 28, 1920. As 

 one of the constituent organizations forming The American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science its meetings were held 

 with the annual meeting of that body at the University of Chi- 

 cago. The sessions of the various associated and affiliated organi- 

 zations extended from December 27 to January 1. 



The morning session of The Wilson Club began with a con- 

 ference of the officers, following which the meeting was convened 

 and the preliminary business taken up. President Strong sketched 

 over the work of the past year and outlined the needs and possi- 

 bilities for increasing the Club's activities during 1921. The report 



