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Fifteen meetings were held by the Club during the year, the 

 average attendance being nineteen. 



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At the A. 0. U. meeting held at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences seven papers were presented by Club members, by 

 Baily, Brown, Moore, Rhoads, and Trotter. A reception was 

 given to the members of the A. 0. U. by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. 

 Baily at their home in Ardmore. 



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Club members were unusually energetic this year in activities 

 outside of the Delaware Valley. Brown commanded a Phila- 

 blustering expedition to Venezuela, Ehoads fought fever-laden 

 mosquitoes in Ecuador in order to present the revolutionists 

 with a new type of arms. Trotter retired again to the solitudes 

 of Nova Scotia, Rehn played tag with the grasshoppers of 

 Florida, Baily and Moore learned how to cook in the Magdalen 



Islands. 



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For the portrait of Rafinesque the Club is indebted to Mr. S. 

 N. Rhoads and for the two views along the Pocomoke to Mr. 

 George Spencer Morris. 



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Francis William Rawle 

 1873-1911 



Francis William Rawle, an Associate Member of the Club, as 

 well as of the American Ornithologists' Union, died after a short 

 illness on June 12, 1911. He was born at Rosemont, Pa., Sep- 

 tember 22, 1873, and was educated at the Haverford College 

 Grammar School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Williams 

 College, where he graduated in 1895. Later he studied law, 

 receiving degrees from Harvard in 1897 and Pennsylvania in 

 1898, after which he practiced his profession in Philadelphia. 



From boyhood Mr. Rawle had been intensely interested in the 

 study of natural history, especially of birds, upon which subject 

 he had formed an exceptionally fine library. Although not a 



