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Fincke described and exhibited several new cameras particu- 

 larly adapted to animal photography. 



October 8, 1901. — No quorum present. 



October 22, 1901.— The President in the chair. Six 

 members and ten visitors present. 



Mr. Wm. Dutcher presented a paper entitled " Some Bird 

 Studies in Maine." It gave the results of a trip among the 

 water-birds of the Maine coast during the month of June, 

 1901, and was illustrated by sixty lantern slides. Eight 

 days were spent at Great Duck Island and a large number 

 of the views were of the Herring Gull (Larus argentatus 

 smithsonianus) colony, of about 3500 individuals, which he 

 found breeding there. [See Auk, XIX, 1902, p. 44.] 



November 12, 1901. — The regular meeting was omitted, the 

 date conflicting with that of the Nineteenth Congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union held at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York. 



November 26, 1901. — The President in the chair. 



Mr. Guilbert Ollive Miller' was elected a Resident Mem- 

 ber of the Society. 



The resignation of Mr. L. S. Foster as Treasurer of the 

 Society was read and accepted, and the Secretary was elected 

 acting Treasurer for the unexpired term. 



On motion of Mr. Wm. Dutcher a committee consisting of 

 Dr. Dwight and Mr. Chapman was appointed to report upon 

 a lunch fund which had been collected and expended in 

 entertaining the American Ornithologists' Union without 

 the official recognition of the Society. 



Mr. C. W. Beebe presented " Notes on Birds in the Bronx 

 Zoological Park." Mr. Beebe gave an account of the habits 

 of many species of birds recently in captivity at the Zoological 

 Park and his notes on the breeding of some of them were espe- 

 cially interesting. In all, fourteen species had successfully bred 

 during the past year, while several more had made attempts at 

 nest-building and incubation. He spoke of the capture, alive, 



