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Sixteen meetings were held during 190;!, with an average attendance 

 of eighteen ; fortj-six members attending one or more of the meetings 

 during the year. 



The Club has undertaken a study of the spring bird migration in the 

 Delaware Valley with very satisfactory results and by soliciting the coop- 

 eration of any competent observers has brought itself in touch with a 

 large number of bird students not included in its membership. 



The more important papers of the year were, 'Gulls and Terns of the 

 Maine Coast,' by W. L. Baily ; 'The G*rmantown Grackle Roost,' by 

 A. C. Emlen ; ' A Trip to Chihuahua, Mex., by Dr. W. E. Hughes; ' An 

 Expedition to southern New Mexico,' by J. A. G. Rehn ; ' Some Old 

 Testament Birds," by S. N. Rhoads ; 'The 1902 Flight of White Herons,' 

 by W. B. Evans. 



The second number of ' Cas.sinia,' covering the proceedings of 1902, 

 was issued in February. 



The officers for the present year are : President, C J. Pennock ; ^'ice- 

 President, Wm. A. Shryock ; Secretarj-, Wm. B. Evans; Treasurer, 

 Stewardson Brown. 



The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Ornithologists' 

 Union was held in Lincoln, Neb., January 24, 1903, on which occasion 

 the following papers were read : President's address — 'Birds and Man,' 

 Rev. J. M. Bates; 'Educational Value of Bird Study,' Mrs. C. S. Lobin- 

 gier ; ' Devices for Interesting Children in Bird Study,' Miss Anna Cald- 

 well; 'Observations on the Number of Birds to the Square Mile in Cus- 

 ter County,' Rev. J. M. Bates; ' The Cro>v in Nebraska,' Wilson ,Tout ; 

 'The Birds of the Niobrara Valley,' Myron Swenk ; 'Birds of Cherry 

 County, Neb.,' Dr. R. H. Wolcott ; 'Remarks on a Record of Nebraska 

 Ornithology,' Dr. R. H. Wolcott. 



The following officers were elected: President, F. H. Shoemaker, 

 Omaha; Vice-President, Miss Anna Caldwell, Lincoln; Corresponding 

 Secretary, J. C. Crawford, Jr., West Point ; Recording Secretary and Edi- 

 tor (permanent). Dr. R. H. Wolcott, University of Nebraska; Treasurer, 

 Mr. August Eiche, Lincoln. The office of Custodian was created as a 

 permanent office and Myron Swenk, of Lincoln, appointed to fill it. 



Newly elected members raised the total membership of the society to 

 nearly two hundred. 



The presentation of a considerable amount of material, including manv 

 skins on which records are based, was reported, and it -was resolved to 

 secure, if possible, for the collection, all the material in the State, upon 

 which the past records of the occurrence of rare birds in Nebraska had 

 been based. 



A committee was appointed to complete the formal organization of the 

 Audubon Auxiliary and to put in definite shape terms of affiliation 

 between it and the Union. 



