SPECIAL MEETING 

 OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 



On February 7, 1907, a special meeting of the Board 

 of Managers was held at the office of Mr. Edmund Sey- 

 mour, 45 Wall Street, New York, for the purpose of 

 amending Article IV, Section I, of the Constitution, so 

 as to provide for a change in the number of Members of 

 the Board of Managers, from eighteen to twenty-seven. 

 This change was made and the following men were elected 

 to fill the nine vacancies created thereby: — 



Prof. Calvin M. Woodward, LL.D., of Washington 

 University, St. Louis, Mo. ; Harry W. Smith, of Wor- 

 cester, Mass.; Commander Robert E. Peary, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C; Prof. Henry F. Osborn, Ph.D., of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York City; 

 John M. Phillips, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Prof. David Starr 

 Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, California; Fred- 

 eric A. Lucas, Curator-in-Chief of the Museum of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Charles B. 

 Davenport, Director of the Biological Station of the 

 Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., and Mr. 

 John E. Thayer, of Boston, Mass. 



SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF 

 THE AMERICAN BISON SOCIETY. 



The second annual meeting of The American Bison 

 Society was held in the Board Room of The American 

 Museum of Natural History, 79th Street and Central 

 Park West, New York City, on Thursday morning, Janu- 

 ary 9th, 1908, at 10:30 o'clock. 



President William T. Hornaday was in the chair. 

 The others present were: Miss Amy Townsend, Prof. 

 Franklin W. Hooper, A. A. Anderson, Dr. Herman C. 

 Bumpus, Edmund Seymour, F. A. Lucas, Charles H. 

 Brinsmade, W. G. Langdon, Jr., H. L. Bridgman, Harry 

 V. Radford, C. H. Stonebridge, loseph E. Buckley and 

 F. D. Tansley. all of New York; H. A. Edwards, of 

 Albany; William Lyman Underwood and Frederic H. 

 Kennard, of Boston, and Ernest Harold Baynes, of 

 Meriden^ N. H. 



