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summer and birds of many species dur- 

 ing migration. In winter black duck 

 come here and stay nights, getting 

 fresh water from puddles, also a bird 

 the fishermen call old squaw, swim 

 around the island and a number of 

 other kinds of sea fowl, such as coot 

 sea pigeon as they are called here. 

 The island is nothing but a rock, nearly 

 covered with guano, with some grass, 

 Not a tree of any kind. It has never 

 been surveyed, but forming a rough es- 

 timate, should say it was in the vicini- 

 ty of twenty acres." 



The editor reported that the out- 

 look for the Journal for the coming 

 year is very favorable. That its suc- 

 cess will be greatly enhanced, if each 

 member will take a personal interest 

 in supplying its pages with notes of in- 

 terest to themselves. 



And the bills of the Journal have 

 been paid and a small cash balance re- 

 mains for the next volume. He recom- 

 mended that members of the Society 

 and friends of the Journal send the 

 names and addresses of friends inter- 

 ested in nature study, to the business 

 manager, that copies might be sent to 

 them. 



j.aat the Journal had been entered 

 as second class matter (after much dif- 

 ficulty). Thus making a material gain 

 in the cost of mailing. That the arti- 

 cles published in the Journal have been 

 frequently copied by papers, due credit 

 having been given. 



In the absence of Mr. Knight the 

 chair stated that the required number 

 of subscriptions to the check list of 

 Maine Birds had not been sufficient to 

 warrant its publication, as yet. J. Mer- 

 ton Swain, Prof. Lee, Prof. Powers, W. 

 H. Brownson and Dr. Kendall rose and 

 subscribed for copies, making a total 

 of thirty-seven. 



Prof. L. A. Lee was called by tho 

 chair to offer remarks for the future 



of the Society. Prof. Lee called atten- 

 tion to the collection of lantern slides 

 which he has made from negatives, 

 supplied by members, from year 10 

 year. The collection now contains 

 nearly three hundred slides and is of 

 much educational value. The slides 

 are at the service of every member of 

 the Society for lecture or educational 

 purposes, and as they are in demand, 

 they are becoming too numerous to be 

 handled or exhibited as a who'e. 



He recommended the preparation of 

 a catalogue, showing his catalogue 

 number and subject of each slide, with 

 name of author of negative and publi- 

 cation of this in the Journal. From 

 this, the printing of a number of se- 

 parates, to be distributed in further- 

 ing ~.e usefulness of the collection. 

 Another suggestion was that of form- 

 ing an album of prints from the nega- 

 tives, from which the slides had been 

 made, to be kept by him for the con- 

 venience of those wishing to select 

 slides for lectures. 



He expressed the wish that those 

 who send negatives will state whether 

 they are willing for them to be 

 used other than at the annual meeting 

 of the Society. He stated that the 

 range of subjects submitted, and the 

 quality of the material, is yearly in- 

 creasing and improving and that an in- 

 crease in this department of the work 

 and its usefulness is anticipated. He 

 called attention to the advantage of 

 collecting the portraits of the older 

 ornithologists of Maine and the pre- 

 paration of slides of the same. Also 

 the preparation of a history of the orni- 

 thology of Maine and a bibliography of 

 the subject. 



Another subject sugested was that of 

 a Dird census of individual birds, with- 

 in the limits of a given area of field, 

 thicket or wood. 



Prof. Lee, in closing, pointed out the 



