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of a Spicier Monkey and another on the foot of a large 

 Alligator, both operations proving highly successful. 



February 11, 1902. — The President in the chair. Six 

 members and four visitors present. 



Mr. C. W. Beebe presented " Review of the Birds of the 

 Celibes by Meyer and "Wiggles worth." 



February 26, 1902. — The President in the chair. Six 

 members and three visitors present. 



Mr. Win. Dutcher called the attention of the Society to 

 a bill which had been introduced into the Assembly at 

 Albany recently, allowing the killing, on the premises, of 

 Robins (Merula migrator ia) by owners or lessees of vineyards 

 in Ulster County, N. Y., from Sept. 16th to Oct. 31st, and. 

 moved, that the President of the Society write a letter to the 

 Chairman of the Forest, Fish and Game Committee protest- 

 ing against the passage of this bill. The motion was carried. 



Mr. Dutcher reported the passage at the present session 

 of the legislature of the bill forbidding pigeon shooting and 

 presented the following preamble and resolution : 



" Whereas : The great Commonwealth of New York having 

 had for many years upon its statute books a law permitting 

 the cruel and barbarous practice of shooting pigeons from 

 traps, and 



" Whereas : For two years the Hon. Samuel Scott Slater, 

 Senator from the 19th Senatorial District, and the Hon. Wm. 

 S. Bennett, Assemblyman from the 21st Assembly District 

 have made a determined and aggressive fight for the repeal 

 of the said law in response to the sentiment of a majority of 

 the citizens of the State, and 



" Whereas : Success has finally crowned their labors, 



" Be it resolved — That the Linnsean Society of New York 

 does hereby express to Senator Slater and Assemblyman 

 Bennett its sincere and earnest thanks for the magnificent 

 results they have accomplished, the influence of which will 

 not only be felt in the Commonwealth they so ably repre- 



