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Staten Island Public Museum or at the residence of members, Mrs. Louis A. 

 Dreyfus, Mrs. Walter T. Ligh, and A. W. Callisen having each extended their 

 hospitality. At one such meeting Edward Avis gave his 'Birdland' recital, 

 assisted by Mrs. F. L. Hillyer, accompanist, Edward J. Burns, Miss Kathryn 

 Trench, and the following children: Victoria Ellenberg, Richard Leng, Paul 

 Kuhn, Edith Trapp. At other meetings the work of conserving wild life has 

 been discussed by Mr. Davis, Mr. Rader, Dr. John J. Schoonhoven, and others; 

 or the reports on winter feeding stations (of which the Club maintains sixteen) 



MEMBERS OF THE STATEN ISLAND (N. Y.) BIRD CLUB 



has been the subject. The meeting of November 5, 1921, was pleasantly sig- 

 nalized by the presence of Mrs. Wilhelm Knauth, Miss Ida F. Thies, Hon. 

 Howard R. Bayne, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hoffmeyer, and Mrs. H. A. Witte, 

 who were among the founders of the Club in 1914. 



Public interest in the Staten Island Bird Club is shown by its increasing 

 membership, now 265, and by the press notices it receives, not only from local 

 newspapers, but in the large dailies of Manhattan. Thus, while the Club 

 has perhaps accomplished no great scientific results, it has in a modest way 

 stimulated the interest in bird-life in its own locality. — Charles W. Leng, 

 Secretary. 



Topeka (Kans.) Audubon Society. — The year just completed was perhaps 

 as successful a one as could be desired for a new organization. The chief 

 activities, aside from the meetings, have been field-trips and the obtaining of 

 outside speakers. Three of the latter were secured last year, viz., Mrs. Bessie 



