JOURNAL OP MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Papers prepared by Guy H. Briggs, 

 Livermore, Austin P. Larrabee, Bruns- 

 wick, L. W. Robbins, Gardiner, A. H. 

 Norton, Westbrook, were referred to 

 the editor without being read, owing 

 to lack of time. 



Session adjourned to meet after din- 

 ner, at the office of Mr. Frank Noble, 

 where the members had been enter- 

 tained earlier in course of the meet- 

 ings. 



The afternoon session was informal, 

 the time being chiefly devoted to the 

 viewing of Mr. Noble's collection *• of 

 choice specimens of birds, nests, eggs, 

 historic firearms, Military relics, and 

 coins. During the afternoon Mr. 

 Noble read a paper entitled "An En- 

 counter Between a Bird and a Snake." 

 This was received with great interest, 

 and remarks followed by Prof. Stant- 

 on. During the meeting the council 

 decided to hold the next annual meet- 

 ing in Portland, Maine, Friday and 

 Saturday, following Thanksgiving, 

 1902. 



Meeting adjourned. 



ARTHUR H. NORTON, 



Secretary. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Officers and members of the Maine Or- 

 nithological Society: — 

 At the fifth annual meeting of our 

 society held at Lewiston, last year, I 

 indicated, under the title of President's 

 Address, the urgent needs of the 

 society at that time. If it served no 

 other purpose it certainly did expedite 

 the work of the business meeting by 

 its orderly arrangement of topics for 

 discussion And I wish to state that 

 the results were very gratifying to me 

 for the suggestions, without exception, 

 were adopted by the society and some 

 of them incorporated as a fundament- 

 al part of our organization. 



But there are yet many changes to 

 be considered, and much energy must 

 be put forth by officers and members 

 before we can hope to enjoy such 

 prosperity as the founders of our 

 .society anticipated. The progress al- 

 ready made, and the work thus far ac- 

 complished incite us to increased 

 activity. 



In my address last year I cited what 

 had been done previously for the pro- 

 motion of Ornithological science in 

 our State, and it may be a matter of 

 surprise to the members and it cer- 

 tainly will be a great delight to all to 

 learn that our work since that time 

 has attracted the notice of foreign 

 scientists. 



December of this year I received 

 the following letter from the Concil- 

 ium Bibleographicum Opibus Complur- 

 ium Nationum Turici Istitutum. 



Zurich Neumunster 1, XII, 1901. 

 Prof. W. L. Powers, 



Gardiner, Me., 

 Dear Sir: — 



I take the liberty of appealing to 

 you as president of the Maine Orni- 

 thological Society in order to obtain 

 for entry in the International Bibleo- 

 graphy of the publications of this 

 young society. At present this is al- 

 most the only ornithological society in 

 the world that has not favored us by 

 sending in its publications for record, 

 the example having been set in Ameri- 

 ca by the A. Q. U., the Cooper Ornith. 

 Club, the Michigan Ornithological 

 Union. I venture to hope that the 

 same course will be followed by your 

 society and take the liberty of send- 

 ing you under separate cover printed 

 notices in regard to our work. Await- 

 ing the favor of your kind reply, I am 

 Yours faithfully, 

 HERBERT HAVILAND FIELD, 



Director. 



I have given direction to our secre- 

 tary and to our editor to place Dr. 

 Field's name upon our mailing list. 



