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zione and an opportunity of examining the unique library of works 

 on travel belonging to the Club. On Friday morning, after ad- 

 journment of the regular meeting, a trip was made to Audubon Park 

 at Broadway and 157th St., where under the guidance of Dr. 

 George Bird Grinnell, a party of about 20 visited the home of John 

 James Audubon and inspected the room that he used as a study 

 and the one in which he died. The points of interest associated with 

 the adjoining homes of Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse Audu- 

 bon were explained and a visit was paid to the Audubon Monument 

 and the Geo. N. Lawrence tomb in Trinity Cemetery. At noon 

 about 40 members assembled at the Administration Building in the 

 New York Zoological Park where they were entertained at luncheon. 

 After an explanation by Dr. Hornaday of the Rungius' series of 

 paintings and the wonderful collection of heads and horns of big 

 game, the party was conducted by Messrs. Beebe and Crandall 

 through the bird houses where two hours were spent in examining 

 in life many rare foreign birds, including the Argus Pheasant, Cock 

 of the Rock, Kagu, three Birds of Paradise and many other inter- 

 esting species. On Saturday some of the members visited the 

 quaint old New York City Marble Cemetery, on Second St., near 

 First Avenue, which contains the grave of J. P. Giraud, Jr., author 

 of the 'Birds of Long Island' and 'Sixteen New Birds of Texas.' 

 Later in the day Audubon's original drawings, which are preserved 

 in the library of the New York Historical Society, were examined. 

 An attractive feature of the meeting was the special exhibits 

 arranged for the occasion by the American Museum. In one of 

 the alcoves in the Bird Hall were shown a number of paintings and 

 sketches of birds by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Miss Althea R. 

 Sherman; in a case in the lecture room was an exhibit of mounted 

 birds containing some of the characteristic species of the avifauna 

 of the war zone; and a large case near the entrance of the Museum 

 contained an exhibit commemorating the centennial of the Ex- 

 pedition to the Rocky Mountains under the command of Major 

 Stephen H. Long in 1819-20. This expedition which was accom- 

 panied by the naturalists Thomas Say and Titian Ramsay Peale, 

 was the first U. S. Government expedition on which naturalists 

 were officially detailed. A map showing the route of the party, 

 the official report, and specimens of the 13 new birds described by 



