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asked to take the chair. Eleven members and forty-three 

 visitors were present. 



Dr. E. B. Southwick presented a paper entitled " Haunts 

 of Animals," illustrated by one hundred and forty-five excel- 

 lent lantern slides. The paper was general in scope and con- 

 tained many mteresting facts regarding the life-histories of 

 Mammals, Birds and Insects. 



February 23, 1904. — The President in the chair. Nine 

 members and eighteen visitors were present. 



^Ir. A. H. Helme was proposed by Dr. D wight for resident 

 membership in the Society. 



The paper of the evenmg was by Mr. Clinton G. Abbott, 

 entitled "Some Birds of the English Breck and Fen District." 

 Mr. Abbott explained the situation in the eastern part of 

 England of the so-called " fen district " — a low marshy sec- 

 tion — and the "breck" — a sandy, flint covered upland 

 immediately adjoining. The former offers splendid breeding 

 grounds for a great variety of Waders and Swimmers, while 

 the latter region (especially protected as a game preserve) is 

 a particularly favorable one for certain upland birds. 



A set of lantern slides, photographs taken by ]Mr. Wm. 

 Farren and Mr. P. H. Bahr, residents of Cambridge, England, 

 and by Mr. Abbott himself, showed about twenty species of 

 birds in their natural haunts, many of them with their nests 

 of eggs or with fledgelings. 



Of exceptional mterest were a series of photographs by INIr. 

 Farren of the timid Stone Curlew (CEdicnemus scolopax), 

 and a picture of the nest and eggs of the Great Bustard 

 (Otis tarda), an extmct resident of England which has been 

 recently reintroduced. 



Mr. F. M. Chapman commented on the fact that this 

 paper was the Society's first introduction to British birds. 



March 8, 1904. — Annual meeting. The President in the 

 chair. Six members and one visitor present. 



Letters of resignation were read from Miss E. A. Foster, 

 Miss Julia G. MacNutt and Mr. R. L. Ditmars. 



