ANNUAL MEETING AND PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 



The Second Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Audubon 

 Society was held at the Washington, Newark, October 15, 1912. 



The business session v/as called to order at 4.15 i\ m. by 

 President Batten, who gave an informal address touching the 

 various phases of the Society's work, a synopsis of which was 

 as follows : 



The President was enthusiastic over the growth of the 

 Society and congratulated the members on the increase from 

 one thousand to ten thousand, and gave credit for the splendid 

 work that had made the growth possible largely to the efficient 

 Secretary. He expressed the hope that the enthusiasm would 

 continue so that at the end of 1913 the Society might have one 

 hundred thousand members. 



Reports of Secretary and Treasurer were read and accepted. 



The Board of Trustees was unanimously re-elected. 



An Auditing Committee to audit the accounts of the Treas- 

 urer was appointed by the President, to consist of Messrs. Pear- 

 son and Grant. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees was held im- 

 mediately after the meeting of the Society. All of the officers 

 were unanimously re-elected. The membership of the Executive 

 Committee was increased from five to six. Messrs. Miller and 

 Nichols being elected and Messrs. Batten, Bowdish, Kuser and 

 Grant being re-elected. 



The public session of the annual meeting was held at 8.00 

 p. M. Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary of the National' Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies, gave an illustrated lecture on ''Audu- 

 bon Work," and Mr. Frank M. Chapman, Curator of Birds of 

 the American Museum of Natural History of New York City, 

 gave an illustrated lecture on "A Search for a Flamingo City." 



