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Sclater. Dr. Spencer Trotter spoke of his early association with 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences and the foreign ornithologists 

 that he met there in the late seventies. Dr. Cornelius Weygandt 

 discussed the love of nature, especially birds, as a common 

 heritage of the English-speaking people, and other addresses 

 were made by Dr. Wm. E. Hughes and Samuel N. Rhoads, 

 while William L. Baily exhibited a series of admirable lantern 

 slides of birds. 



As it was almost exactly thirty years since the first steps were 

 taken to organize the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club in 

 late December, 1889, it was decided that this event should be 

 considered as the Club's anniversary meeting. 



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The field work of the members was spread over a wide area 

 during 1919. Stuart visited Newfoundland in search of the 

 eggs of various boreal species, while Harlow was in New Bruns- 

 wick on a similar errand. Stone spent the summer in camp 

 in the Chiricahua Mts., southern Arizona, as the guest of J. 

 Eugene Law, while Rehn was catching grasshoppers in the 

 Death Valley, Hughes was cruising through the West Indies 

 and Trotter at his old haunts in Nova Scotia. 



Of members far removed Burleigh has been active in the 

 formation of the Northwestern Bird and Mammal Club at 

 Seattle, and Hunt in the recently organized Chicago Ornitho- 

 logical Club, while Coggins has been induced to attend at least 

 one meeting of the Cooper Club at Berkeley, Calif., during the 

 year. 



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Increased cost of production and unprecedented conditions in 

 the printing business have delayed the appearance of this issue. 



