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sure, prove of immense benefit to the A. O. U. and will pave the way for a 

 meeting of the latter body in Chicago or vicinity some time in the near 

 future. 



The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club held its twenty-fourth annual 

 meeting on the evening of January 14, 1914, at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia. The following officers were cho.sen for the ensuing 

 year. President, Stewardson Brown; Vice-President, Henry W. Fowler; 

 Secretary, J. Fletcher Street; Treasurer, Samuel C. Palmer; Editor of 

 'Cassinia,' Robert Thomas Moore. The meetings have been well attended 

 during the year and a number of interesting communications have been 

 made. Among others may be mentioned the ' Musical versus the Syllabic 

 Method of Recording Bird Song,' by R. T. Moore; 'The Embryology of a 

 Bird,' by Dr. Samuel C. Palmer; 'Notes on Birds Observed on a Trip 

 through Florida and Texas,' by James A. G. Rehn, 'On Kirtland's Warbler 

 in Michigan' by Dr. Max M. Peet, and 'Fish-eating Birds,' by Henry W. 

 Fowler. 



The Club is preparing to increase its corps of bird migration observers 

 and will be glad to furnish blank schedules for making returns to anyone 

 in eastern Pennsylvania or southern New Jersey who desires to aid in the 

 work. 



The Linnaean Society of New York, held its annual dinner at the Hotel 

 Endicott, New York City, on the evening of March 24, 1914. Dr. Daniel 

 Giraud Elliot was the guest of honor. 



The coming Thirty-second Stated Meeting of the A. O. U. to be held at 

 Washington, D. C, April 6-9, 1914, marks a new policy on the part of the 

 organization. The first and second meetings were held in September, 

 the fifth in October, and several early in December, but all the others in 

 November, usually during the second week in the month. 



The objects of the change to April were explained in the January issue 

 of ' The Auk ' and it is to be hoped that many members who were hitherto 

 unable to be present will this year find it possible to attend, and also 

 that the change from autumn to spring wall not prove inconvenient to 

 those who through many years' attendance have become thoroughly iden- 

 tified with the meetings. 



The circular issued by the local committee states that an invitation has 

 been received from Dr. Frank Baker inviting the members to visit the 

 National Zoological Park, a delightful spot where in April many wild 

 native migrant birds may doubtless be seen as well as the foreign species 

 which are, from force of circumstances, resident there. Further possibilities 

 in this direction are opened up by the additional announcement that if 

 weather conditions will permit there will be short field excursions under 



