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Mr. Ralph Hoffman, of Massachusetts; 

 Mr. Carlton D. Howe, of Vermont; Mr. 

 David Starr Jordan, of California; Mrs. 

 C. Grant LaFarge, of New York; Mrs. 

 Kingsmill Marrs, of Florida; Mr. Frank 

 M. Miller, of Louisiana; Mr. Arthur H. 

 Norton, of Maine; Dr. T. S. Roberts, of 

 Minnesota; Mr. Witmer Stone, of Penn- 

 sylvania; Miss Katherine H. Stuart, of 

 Virginia; Mr. Abbott H. Thayer, of New 

 Hampshire; Mr. John E. Thayer, of Mas- 

 sachusetts; Mr. W. Scott Way, of Maryland; 

 Mr. Wm. P. Wharton, of Massachusetts; 

 Mr. Robert W. Williams, Jr., of Florida; 

 Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, of Connec- 

 ticut. They were duly elected. 



The report of the Treasurer was read, 

 together with the report of the Certified 

 Accountant and the Auditing Committee. 

 All of the above were ordered to be printed 

 in the Annual Report of the Association. 



The Secretary's report, together with 

 those of Field Agents Forbush and Finley, 

 were presented, and were also ordered 

 printed in the annual report. 



Clinton G. Abbott, B.A., gave a lecture 

 entitled "Half Holidays with the Birds." 

 Mr. Abbott's talk was received with great 

 enthusiasm by the members present, who 

 appreciated the splendid slides presented. 

 The pictures and talk both were a strong 

 argument in favor of the camera over the 

 gun, as an aid to bird study. 



On the adjournment of the meeting of 

 the Association, a meeting of the Board of 

 Directors was held, when the following 

 officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 William Dutcher, President; Theodore 

 S. Palmer, First Vice-President; Dr. J. A. 

 Allen, Second Vice-President; T. Gilbert 

 Pearson, Secretary; Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 

 Treasurer. 



Mr. Samuel T. Carter, Jr., of New 

 York City, was reappointed counsel for 

 the ensuing year. 



The President was directed to reengage 

 all of the field staff of the Association, 

 together with as many or all of the special 

 wardens as should be found necessary 

 during the breeding season of 1910. 



The President recommended that a 

 suitable certificate should be prepared 



by the Association, to be given to patrons 

 and life-members, and also to such per- 

 sons whom the Board of Directors con- 

 sider to have performed extraordinary and 

 meritorious work for bird protection. 



It was ordered that the recommenda- 

 tion be referred to a Committee of two, 

 to prepare designs for a certificate or 

 medal, or both, and present the same with 

 their report at the next meeting of the 

 Board. The following Committee was 

 appointed: Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Mr. Frank 

 M. Chapman. 



The counsel of the Association notified 

 the Board that certain mortgages held as a 

 part of the endowment fund would soon 

 fall due, and that some of them undoubt- 

 edly would be paid to the Association. 



Dr. Bumpus offered the following 

 resolution: 



Resolved: That, in case any mortgages 

 held by the Association may' be paid off 

 from time to time, the monies so real- 

 ized must be reinvested in bonds se- 

 cured by first mortgages on improved real 

 estate within the City of New York, and 

 that the President, Treasurer and Coun- 

 sel of the Association be, and they hereby 

 are appointed a Committee to arrange for 

 such investments, with the express under- 

 standing that no mortgage loan shall be 

 made in a larger amount than two-thirds 

 of the appraised value of any property; 

 such appraisal to be made by any one of 

 the following parties: 



Official appraisers of Title Guarantee 

 and Trust Company; Official appraisers 

 of Lawyers Title Insurance and Trust 

 Company; Douglas Robinson, Charles ' 

 S. Brown & Co.; Horace S. Ely & Co. 



The above motion was unanimously 

 carried. 



It was suggested by Dr. Palmer that 

 the Association should in a systematic way 

 provide wardens employed by this organi- 

 zation with suitable bird books and other 

 literature, in order that they may learn 

 the proper names and true value of the 

 birds they are protecting, and also that 

 they may be able to impart such knowledge 

 to the public among whom they work, 

 when occasion demands. 



