Bird Club Notes 



The Club is indebted to the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia for the use of the half-tone block of the old Acad- 

 emy building. This was the "Academy" of 1826 to 1840, to 

 which Townsend brought back his Pacific Coast birds and where 

 Audubon made his first examination of them. Here too Gam- 

 bel must have come with Nuttall to make his first acquaintance 

 with men of science. All efforts to find a portrait of Gambel 

 have failed ; probably none ever existed. 



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The Club has held sixteen meetings during the year in which 

 seventy-one members participated. The average attendance was 



nineteen. 



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At the A. 0. U. meeting in Washington, the Club was repre- 

 sented by Messrs. Moore, Morris, Rhoads, Essick, Pennock and 

 Stone, and by Messrs. Miller and Todd, Corresponding Members. 



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College courses have deprived the Club of the services of Red- 

 field, who is at Harvard, and of Harlow and Harrower at State 

 College. 



Rhoads was in Europe during the Summer, Brown in 

 Jamaica, Roberts in British Columbia, Robinson in California, 

 and Rehn in various parts of the West. 



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William Earl Dodge Scott, long connected with ornithologi- 

 cal activities at Princeton University, died at Saranac Lake, 

 N. Y., on August 22, 1910. Mr. Scott was well known as a 

 writer on birds, not only of New Jersey but of various other 

 parts of the world, especially Arizona, Florida and Jamaica. 

 The collection at Princeton and various groups at the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology are evidence of his skill as a taxidermist. 



The publication of the Report on the Ornithology of the 

 Princeton Patagonian Expedition which Mr. Scott was engaged 

 upon at the time of his death in conjunction with Dr. R. 

 Bowdler Sharp also deceased, will be continued under the ed- 

 itorship of Mr. Witmer Stone. 



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