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5. The order of exercises at our regular 

 meetings shall be : a. Eoll call ; h. Min- 

 utes of the last meeting ; c. Treasurer's 

 report ; d. Report of corresponding secre- 

 tary ; e. Reports of members on specimens, 

 etc. ; /. Miscellaneous business ; g. Ad- 

 journment, 



6. New members may be elected at any 

 regular meeting of the society, by ballot, 

 and - adverse ballots shall exclude. 



7. The meetings of this society shall 

 be conducted in accordance with , etc. 



The second article should contain a 

 clause limiting the time during which the 

 various offices shall be held ; but consider- 

 ing the fact that the addresses of your 

 President and Secretary are to be publish- 

 ed in The Young Oologist, for the bene- 

 fit of other legions, those officers should be 

 elected once for all, if possible. In any 

 case you should take a P. O. Box, which 

 may remain as the permanent address of 

 your legion through whatever official 

 changes may occur. 



In societies where members are of nearly 

 the same age, the decision of the majority 

 should be regarded as absolute, and be 

 cheerfully agreed to by the minority. In 

 family legions, and those under the direc- 

 tion of a teacher, it is well to have a by-law 

 giving the President the power to vetoj 

 and making a three-fourths vote necessary 

 to pass a motion over his veto. Such 

 branches may, if they choose, constitute 

 simple classes and remain entirely subject 

 to the control of parent or teacher. The 

 Constitution leaves each branch entirely 

 free in these matters. 



The first duty of your secretary, after 

 having recorded the minutes of your meet- 

 ing for organization, will be to send to the 

 Chief Secretary of the Association an ac- 

 count of the formation of the legion. 

 Once in one month thereafter, a report of 

 your progress will be expected. Should 

 you from any cause, disband, immediate 

 notice should be sent to the Chief Secretary 

 so that other chapters may not address you 

 in vain. 



Each Legion must subscribe for the of- 

 ficial organ. The Young Oologist. These 

 subscriptions are to be sent to the Chief Sec- 

 retary immediately after you have organized 

 your Legion. One half the amount re- 

 ceieved from the Legions for The Young 

 Oologist will be used by the Chief Secre- 

 tary to pay the actual expenses of the asso- 

 ciation, and the remaining one-half will be 

 forwarded by the Chief Secretary to the 

 publisher of The Young Oologist. 

 Owing to the valuable aid, suggestions re- 



ceived, and interest manifested in our work 

 we have requested Mr. Jose R. Curtis, of 

 Painted Post, Steuben County, N. Y. , to 

 act as Chief Secretary of the Knights of 

 Audubon. Mr. Curtis has kindly accepted 

 the appointment, and in future all com- 

 munications should be sent to his address. 

 The following is a short extract from 

 what the Chief Secretary has to say : 



" The publishers of The Young Oolo- 

 gist have decided to start in their paper a 

 society or association, to be called the 

 "Knights of Audubon" (in honor of that 

 great scholar and traveller), to which any 

 person can belong, regardless of sex. This 

 will enable the re. ost obscure naturalists to 

 exchange specimens, notes, etc. , and place 

 themselves on an equal basis with other 

 collectors, using this magazine as the of- 

 ficial organ. 



A department will be devoted to this 

 subject, which will be, "Birds, their nests, 

 and eggs," containing communications 

 from the different members of the frater- 

 nity, with name of writer, etc. These let- 

 ters must be concise and with more atten- 

 tion to actual facts and observations. The 

 success of the association depends entirely 

 upon the efforts of the oologists, and others 

 interested in birds, and it will require no 

 great exertion on their part to make it a 

 monument of the Audobonites, and an 

 honor to the memory of the great natural- 

 ist after whom it is named. Organize 

 legions at once." 



The attention of our readers is especially 

 called to the notices of our advertising 

 patrons which occur in this issue. Many 

 of the advertisements are those of old and 

 reliable firms, and as this is the class of ad- 

 vertising we desire to encourage, we trust 

 our readers will draw the attention of their 

 friends, whom they think might be inter- 

 ested, to our advertisements. As the 

 readers, as well as the publisher, is de- 

 sirous of informing the public of the value 

 of The Young Oologist as an advertis- 

 ing medium, it is, doubtless, needless to 

 add — always mention The Young Ooolo- 

 GiST when answering advertisements ap- 

 pearing in its columns. 



