Club Notes 



Mr. Robert Thomas Moore has resigned the editorship of 

 Cassinia owing to the press of other interests which require him 

 to be absent from his home in Haddonfield, N. J. , for consider- 

 able periods of time, Mr. Moore took over the editorship of 

 our annual publication with its fifteenth number in 1911, and 

 for the last five years has faithfully and efficiently served the 

 Club in this respect. The D. V. 0. C. extends its thanks to 

 Mr. Moore and its appreciation of his good work in forwarding 

 the interests of Cassinia. 



The Thirty-fourth Stated Meeting of the American Ornitho- 

 logists Union was held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, November 13th to 16th. Secretary Sage reports 

 the largest registered attendance of members in the history of 

 the Union. Among the many papers read were two by mem- 

 bers of the D. V. 0. C, "Our Eastern Flycatchers and Their 

 Nesting Sites" by William L. Baily illustrated by lantern 

 slides, and "Some Relationships of the North American Pas- 

 seres ' ' by Spencer Trotter. 



Covington Few Seiss, an Associate Member of the Club for 

 many years, died at his home in Philadelphia on September 5, 

 1915. Mr. Seiss was the son of the late Dr. Joseph A. Seiss, a 

 prominent Lutheran minister, and was for a number of years 

 past editor of the ' ' Sunday-school Times. ' ' He was unmarried. 

 His chief interest was in art and he had long been secretary of 

 the Philadelphia Sketch Club. From early youth he had been 

 interested in natural history and had formed extensive collec- 

 tions of insects, reptiles and osteological material and published 

 several papers on entomology. For a long while he was one 

 of the most regular attendants at the Club meetings and made 

 several communications of interest. He was also a member of 



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