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ton, 6 from Windham, and 2 from Windsor. 11 members 

 reside outside of Vermont. These 83 members are resi- 

 dents of only 30 different towns and cities. We should 

 have a member of the Vermont Club in every town in the 

 state. If I remember aright, there are 246 towns in Ver- 

 mont. Therefore 216 towns are not represented in our 

 Club. 



Every present member should make it a matter of per- 

 sonal interest and pride to increase the Club's membership. 

 Cannot each one of us obtain at least two new members 

 each year? We realize that only a small portion of the 

 members are able to attend the annual meetings, and in the 

 past we have lost members on that account. As the annual 

 Bird Bulletin is now an assured fact, we hope that it will 

 keep such members in closer touch with the Club and 

 sustain a binding and enduring interest. Now, then, it 

 behooves us to make this Bulletin of ever increasing at- 

 tractiveness and value. 



In the Constitution of the Vermont Bird Club you may 

 read that one of its objects is "to collect and preserve in- 

 forrnation concerning those species found in the state." 

 For the past three years the Club has distributed migration 

 blanks upon which to record the species observed, and other 

 data, throughout the year. There are only eight members 

 who have returned to the secretary completed migration 

 lists for two consecutive years. We freely admit that a 

 majority of the members cannot keep such a list. But is 

 not this number eight altogether too small? Let us make 

 the number twenty and let us begin now. What a gain it 

 would be in our knowledge of Vermont Birds, if there were 

 twenty stations throughout the state where migration lists 

 were being kept. 



Again from our Constitution we read "to encourage an 

 interest in birds and to promote scientific investigations." 

 It seems to me we lack enthusiasm in this line of our effort. 

 Let us take for ovir example in promoting interest and 

 scientific investigations our sister Club in Botany. Just 

 think for a moment what the Vermont Botanical Club has 

 accomplished during the twelve years of its existence. 

 There is probably not a town, territory, gore, mountain, 

 lake, valley, pond' or swamp in the entire state that has not 

 disclosed its secrets, to a greater or less degree, to some 

 member of that Club. How enthusiastic and painstaking 

 its oflficers are and how they transmit that enthusiasm to 

 each individual member. Are we, officers of the Vermont 

 Bird Club, remiss in our duty? 



