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the past five years will recall many pleasant and profitable even- 

 ings, when we gathered in the reception room of Dr. Groenewoud 

 or Dr. Test or Dr. I.ewy. For over a year past the meetings were 

 held in the rooms of the Cook Coimty Forest Preserve in the 

 County Building, then the Crerar Library gave the use of the 

 Class Room in their new building at Michigan Boulevard and Ran- 

 dolph Street, where meetings have been held since March, 1921. 



From a small beginning, with but a handful in attendance, the 

 Society has grown until today the meetings are well attended. It 

 has encouraged the scientific side of ornithology and has gathered 

 together a group of students who are doing valuable work and 

 who obtain both instruction and enjoyment in the informal Round 

 Table talks, when notes and experiences are read, compared and 

 discussed. One or two field trips are held each year. A commit- 

 tee has under its care the recording of migration and nesting 

 data of the birds of the Chicago area. Some members travel 

 about over the country and return with a message for us on the 

 birds of distant States, while stay-at-home members bring us the 

 message gleaned from an intimate study of one or more of our 

 own local birds. But after all it is the enthusiasm, mutual help 

 and good fellowship these meetings inspire that assures the Chi- 

 cago Ornithological Society a bright and lasting future. 



Chicago, 111. Chreswell J. Hunt. 



