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bers and visitors present. Mr. Maunsell S. Crosby was elected 

 a resident member of the Society. 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman presented ''A Contribution to the 

 Life History of the Flamingo/' illustrated with lantern slides 

 (Published, '^Country Life in America/' vol. 8, 1905, pp. 41 ff.) 



May 23, 1905.— The President in the chair. Twenty-three 

 members and visitors present. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. J. de Lagerberg which 

 contained a clipping from a Swedish newspaper and its trans- 

 lation by the writer to the effect that, following the custom of 

 placing commemorative tablets upon the trunks of the great 

 trees of the Yosemite Valley, an appropriate tablet in memory 

 of Linnaeus had recently been fastened to a tree 350 feet tall. 



Mr. C. G. Abbott presented a paper entitled "The Birds of 

 an Orchard." Lantern slides were exhibited showing birds 

 or nests of about twenty species, all of which had been found 

 by the speaker nesting in one orchard. 



October 10, 1905. — The President in the chair. Five mem- 

 bers and four visitors present. 



The names of Mr. and Mrs. Browne H. Lewis of Edge- 

 water, N. J., and Dr. Elton Perry of New York City, were 

 proposed for resident membership. 



It was voted to suspend the first meeting in November be- 

 cause the dinner of the A. O. U. Congress falls upon the same 

 date. The matter of the Society's providing luncheon for the 

 delegates to the Congress was discussed. 



Mr. B. S. Bowdish told of his experiences during the past 

 summer in photographing birds about his home in Demarest, 

 N. J., particularly Blue-winged {Helminthophila finus) and 

 Hooded Warblers (Wilsonia mitrata). 



INIr. S. H. Chubb recorded a great migratory movement of 

 Hawks — probably Broad-winged {Buteo platypterus) , ob- 

 served by him from the Museum on September 23. One 

 flock of the birds seemed to form almost a compact mass, in 

 which Mr. Chubb estimated that there were as many as one 



