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he also served as principal of the Brooklyn Evening: High School for 

 Men. While in Brooklyn, Mr. Clark took an active interest in teachers' 

 organizations, in w^hich he held various offices. As a member of the 

 committee on teachers' salaries he took a leading part in the campaign 

 that resulted in the enactment of the Davis Law. 



When the new high school building in the Borough of Richmond 

 was nearing completion and the separate high school departments of 

 Port Richmond and Stapleton were combined into one high school for 

 the whole borough, Mr. Clark was appointed principal. He entered 

 on his duties as principal of the George William Curtis High School 

 February i, 1904. He planned the organization well beforehand, so 

 that from the first day of school in the new building, Feb. 11, the 

 school was in running order. 



He died at Lakeville, N. Y., on July 28, 1906. Funeral services 

 were held at Lakeville and the interment was at Geneseo. 



Mr. Clark was possessed of a strong will and determination, and his 

 work was characterized by ambitious zeal for the success of his under- 

 takings. In the death of its first principal Curtis High School lost a 

 strong executive leader, who worked with unusual zeal for the success 

 of his school. 



Mr. Clark's active connection with our Association was only just 

 beginning, but his ability and training justify the conviction that in 

 his death we have lost a valuable member, whose influence in the ad- 

 vancement of the ideals of the Association would have been an impor- 

 tant factor. ^ 



Mr. James Chapin exhibited a series of photographs and read a 

 paper on 



A Brood of Barred Owls at Great Kills. 



On April 16, 1905, at Great Kills, Mr. Alanson Skinner pointed out 

 to me a good-sized hole about twenty-five feet above the ground, in a 

 large swamp oak, from which he had just seen a barred owj, Syrnium 

 nebulosum (Forst.), fly; but as we could see no way to climb up wedicF 

 not investigate further at the time. On April 8th of this year we were 

 again in the same locality. Mr. Skinner saw a downy feather clinging 

 to one side of the same hole, and when I kicked the base of the tree a 

 barred owl flew out. By cutting down a small tree and placing its 

 denuded trunk against that of the larger one we managed to climb up 

 to the nest-hole. 



The owls had put no nesting material in it, merely laying their threr 



