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and there is every prospect that their numbers will gradually 

 increase. Mr. Baj^nes also described his arduous but very 

 successful efforts in breaking young captive Buffaloes to the 

 yoke and to harness. His paper was illustrated with a large 

 number of lantern slides. 



March 12, 1912. — Annual Meeting. The President in the 

 chair. Ten members and thirteen visitors present. 



In response to the invitation of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, which had been read at the previous 

 meeting, Dr. Dwight was appointed to represent the Linnsean 

 Society at the celebration of the centenary anniversary of the 

 Academy in Philadelphia on March 19, 20, and 21. 



Before the rest of the business incident to the annual meeting 

 was taken up, the Chair called upon Dr. Frank Overton for 

 the paper of the evening. 



Dr. Overton first exhibited a splendid series of lantern 

 slides of Meadowlarks (Sturnella m. magna) as well as of Blue 

 Jays {Cyanocitta c. cristata), Juncos (Junco h. hyemalis), 

 StarUngs (Sturnus vulgaris), and House Sparrows (Passer d. 

 domesticus). All of these birds had been photographed near 

 Patchogue, L. L, during the cold weather of the past few 

 weeks, as they came to cleared spaces in the snow, where 

 food had been put out for them. 



The paper which had been announced on the program and 

 was entitled ''Frogs and Toads of Long Island," was then 

 presented. This very interesting paper dealt mainly with 

 Dr. Overton's studies of the Leopard and Green Frogs (Rana 

 pipiens and R. clamitans), the Common Toad (Bufo fowleri), 

 Pickering's Hyla (Hyla pickeringi) and the common Tree 

 Frog {H. versicolor) in Suffolk County during the previous 

 spring and summer. The speaker described at considerable 

 length his observations on the distribution, notes, reproduction, 

 and general habits of these species. The paper was admirably 

 illustrated with lantern sUdes, which included a number of 

 autochromes and many flashlights taken at night in the 

 marshes. The speaker's vocal imitations of the batrachians' 

 notes were supplemented in a unique manner by phonographic 

 records of the croaking of the Toad, which were reproduced 

 on a phonograph before the audience. 



