NATURALISTS' UNION MID-WINTER MEETING. 



REPORT OF DELEGATK, PROF. L. H. WATTERS. 



The mid-winter meeting of the Delaware Valley Natural- 

 ists' Union was held in Memorial Hall and Horticultural 

 Hall, Fairmount Park, Saturda^^ Februar>' 2nd, 1907. 



The Union is composed of scientific societies in southeast- 

 ern Pennsylvania, Delaware and western New Jersey, and has 

 for its object the advancement of science and the enlistment 

 of public interest in the study of nature in all its forms. The 

 meetings of the Union are held twice a year ; usually in May 

 and January or February. The May meeting takes the form 

 of an excursion to some locality of interest to botanists, geol- 

 ogists and bird-lovers ; and they have been so planned that 

 eveiy one interested in any kind of nature study may always 

 find something of interest. An important feature of all these 

 meetinos is a lecture or two by persons well versed in the sub- 

 jects upon which they speak. 



Although the weather was unfavorable, the attendance at 

 the mid- winter meeting was unusually large, and, so far as 

 could be ascertained, every organization belonging to the 

 Union was represented. 



At two o'clock the meeting in Memorial Hall was called 

 to order by the President, Mr. Charles L. Pennypacker, of 

 Haddonfiield, New Jerse}^ who, in a few appropriate remarks, 

 introduced Mr. Edgar A. Barber, Curator of the Museum. 

 Mr. Barber gave the visitors a very cordial welcome, and gave 

 instiuctions as to where the various exhibits were to be found ; 

 after which these assembled broke up into small parties and 

 visited the various departments to which their interest or curi- 

 osity led them. The Curator himself led a party to the rooms 

 containing the exhibit of American pottery, where he gave an 

 interesting account of the development of the industry in this 

 countrs', and explained the process of manufacture of the 

 various kinds of ware. The exhibit contains specimens of 

 the potter's art from the early Colonial period to the present 



