Records of Meetings 51 



Announced Program 



Captain Francis D. Murphy gave an address on Big Game Hunting in 

 the Soudan, based upon personal experiences while stationed in the Nile 

 region in the service of the British army. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MAY l8, I918 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, Staten Island. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and thirty persons present. 



The minutes of the meeting of April 20, 1918, were read and approved. 



The president announced the death, on May /i, of Captain- Francis 

 Delancy Murphy, who succumbed to an attack of pneumonia after an ill- 

 ness of less than three days. Captain Murphy was a retired British army 

 officer, fifty years of age, who served for sixteen years with General 

 Kitchener in the Soudan. He was elected a member of the Association on 

 January 22, 1916, and although only a recent. resident of Staten Island, had 

 taken an active interest in the protection of local bird life in connection 

 with the work of the Staten Island Bird Club. 



Al;^ the meeting of the Association on January 20, 1917, he described 

 and discussed the African animals represented in the Frederick C. Have- 

 meyer collection of mounted heads ; at our meeting last month he enter- 

 tained us with an account of his personal experiences in big game hunting 

 in the Soudan ; and this evening he was to have delivered an address on 

 Observations of a Resident in Equatorial Africa. 



The annual report of the Board of Trustees was read by the president 

 in lieu of his annual address. (See this issue, p. 61.) 



The annual report of the treasurer was read, approved and ordered 

 placed on file. (See this issue, p. 63.) 



The annual report of the secretary was read, approved and ordered 

 placed on file. (See this issue, p. 64.) 



The director gave an outline of the principal items to be included in his 

 report which will be submitted to the Board of 'Trustees at its annual 

 meeting. (See this issue, p. 65.) 



The president announced the next order of business to be the election 

 of four trustees for a term of three years each, to fill the vacancies 

 caused by the expiration of the terms of office of Howard R. Bayne, Wil- 

 liam T. Davis, Charles A. Ingalls, and S. McKee Smith, and called for the 

 report of the committee on nominations. 



The committee subrnitted the names of the present incumbents to suc- 

 ceed themselves. 



The president asked if there were any other nominations, and none being 

 presented it was regularly moved and carried that the secretary be in- 

 structed to cast one affirmative ballot for the nominees submitted by the 

 committee. 



