JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Many of the recent members have been 

 unable to secure one at any price and 

 a second edition has been in prepara- 

 tion for the past year. I am happy 

 to be able to state that it will be ready 

 for the printer in January. 



Now it seems to me that the most 

 important thing for us to consider at 

 this meeting is -the publication of this 

 new list. How it shall be put out, to 

 what extent it shall be illustrated, if 

 at all, and where the money is coming 

 from to meet the expense must be de- 

 cided upon before this meeting closes. 

 I hope that each one will feel it his 

 bounden duty to propose a feasible 

 scheme. 



The election of a new board of of- 

 ficers will require judgment on your 

 part that the work already begun may 

 go on without interruption, I recom- 

 mend that the present editor be re- 

 tained if he will again accept the posi- 

 tion, for I feel that his energy and in- 

 dustry have done much to make our 

 Journal a success. 



He has been successful in interesting 

 advertisers, and now that the door is 

 open others may be induced to enter. 

 The price for space in our paper, if not 

 satisfactory to all, should be settled at 

 this time. 



The addition of an associate editor 

 would lighten the work of publica- 

 tion, and if a woman were elected to 

 this position and made one of the 

 council, she would add not a little to 

 our effective working force. The 

 changing of our Journal to a monthly 

 publication would then be a lighter 

 task for all, and the increased inter- 

 est on the part of subscribers would 

 be felt by the society as a whole. 



The great increase in the sales of 

 Nature Study books and Journals, 

 many of which, however, show a 

 lamentable dearth so far as study is 

 concerned, seems to indicate that the 

 public is yearning for more of the 



same thing. In view of the facts that 

 there is no Audubon Society in Maine, 

 and that ours is the only Journal in 

 our State devoted entirely to the sub- 

 ject of nature study, it would seem 

 that a proper presentation of its 

 claims in this direction would merit a 

 much larger appreciation from the 

 public in the form of a greatly in- 

 creased subscription list. • 



Another feature that would add 

 much to the effectiveness of our Journ- 

 al would be the addition of a depart- 

 ment or column giving in each publi- 

 cation the titles of those nature study 

 leaflets on the subject of Ornithology 

 which have been published by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture at Washing- 

 ton, the University of Maine, Clark 

 University and Cornell which may be 

 procured for the asking or for a few 

 cents. Many persons, especially teach- 

 ers, would make use of them if their 

 attention were directed to them. 



There is no Audubon Society in our 

 State, yet we are doing the same work 

 that these societies are taking up else- 

 where. If mention were made of this 

 fact in our Journal, on our letter 

 heads and envelopes it would bring 

 many to a better appreciation of our 

 aims and purposes. And while we 

 should stand or fall on our merits 

 alone, we should not hesitate to avail 

 ourselves of every merited support. 



The printing of the names of all 

 subscribers in the January number 

 each year would serve to bring us 

 more in touch with each other, to 

 arouse an interest in our member- 

 ship and to increase our knowledge of 

 the work that is being done through- 

 out the State in the subject of Ornith- 

 ology. 



It now remains for me to speak of 

 the great need of our society at the 

 present time. I refer to the condition 

 of our treasury. 



Much that might be done to extend 

 our influence and to increase our mem- 



