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-and also with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Akeley, of Chicago. He covered 

 much of the ground where ex-President Roosevelt has traveled, 

 and met him on several occasions. Mr. Clark effectively supple- 

 mented his talk with a large number of excellent lantern slides, 

 and gave a fascinating account of the expedition on safari;- the 

 hunting of rhinoceroses, lions, elephants, water buffaloes, hippo- 

 potami, and many other species of game; the scenery, which 

 usually has the aspect of the temperate zone rather than of the 

 tropical; his experiences with various tribes of natives, and 

 their customs, manners, and dress; the exploration of the won- 

 derful but little-known caves of Mount Elgon, which have 

 probably been inhabited by native people for a very long period, 

 etc. Of intense interest was the narrative of his experience in 

 being treed and hunted by a band of several hundred elephants. 



October 11, 1910. — The President in the chair. Thirty-five 

 members and visitors present. 



The President announced that as the next meeting of the 

 Linnsean Society would fall upon the same date as the Annual 

 Meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies, a 

 joint meeting of the two organizations would be held on October 

 25. 



As a special feature of the evening, Mr. Reginald I. Brasher 

 gave an exhibition of some very excellent water-color drawings 

 of birds, which he had made recently. These formed a small 

 part of a collection upon which Mr. Brasher has been working for 

 a number of years, and which he designs eventually to include 

 every known species and subspecies of North American bird. 

 In speaking of the proposed publication of his work in some 

 fourteen volumes, he called attention to the fact that no large 

 and comprehensive work of this sort had been issued since the 

 days of Audubon. This exhibition was practically a continua- 

 tion of a similar one given by Mr. Brasher before the Society 

 last year. 



Mr. Howard. H. Cleaves then presented a paper entitled 

 ''Wild Bird Photography as a Recreation," and illustrated it 

 with a splendid collection of over 100 lantern slides. Practically 

 all of the photographs were taken on Staten Island, and demon- 

 strated what a rich avifauna may still be found within the 



