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The Oologist, 



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Report of Western New "fork Naturalists 

 Associa n- 



The first annual mee L ing of the W. N. 

 Y. N. A. was held at Brockport, N. Y., 

 Oct. 6, 1892. The business meeting 

 Was called at 2:39 p.. m. 



The following officers were elected: 



E. B. Peck, Pies. 



Harry B . Sargent, Vice-Pres . 



T. R.Taylor, Sec. 



E. H. Short, Treas. 



Executive committee; Geo. Guelf, 

 Harry B. Sargent, T. R. Taylor. 



There were seventeen active and two 

 associate members present, 



The following draft of objects was 

 adopted: 



I.— The object of the Association 

 shall be to afford means for a more 

 definite, thorough and systematic study 

 of the Natural History of New York 

 State by promoting the mutual acquain- 

 tance of those interested, and by bring- 

 ing together and comparing notes of in- 

 terest from different sections ami dis- 

 seminating information gathered there- 

 from . 



II.— To awaken in the hearts and 

 minds of all a truer love' and deeper 

 interest in the study of Nature, enab- 

 ling them to "Look, through Nature up 

 to Nature's God." 



HI.— To promote a truer knowledge 

 of The wonders of Nature, by exhibits 

 of specimens and the reading of articles 

 relating thereto. 



IV. — To lend its voire, its influence 

 and its labors to insure the protection 

 and preservation of animal life and to 

 promote such measures as shall point 

 to this end. 



Neil F. Posson, 1 



Truman R. Taylor, ! ,-. 

 Ernest H. miokt, f Com <pittee. 

 Geo. F. Guelf, J 



Thirty-one new members were added 

 to our roll - 



At the evening session— which was 

 open to the public— the following inter- 

 esting papers' were read: 



"Was the North American Indian a 

 descendant of the Mound Builders?" by 

 T. Harry Derrick; "The Rough-winged 

 Swallow," by Neil F. Posson; "What 

 can we do, and how shall we do itP" by 

 Ernest H. Short; "The winter birds of 

 Harrison Co. Georgia, " by B. S. Bow- 

 dish. Lecture by Truman R. Taylor; 

 Lecture by Harry B. Sargent. 



Several tine collections of Natural 

 Sc euce specimens were exhibited by 

 the following: Harry B. Sargent, A. 



