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courteous to your adversaries, and charitable to those that fail; but above 

 all have the courage of your convictions; watch each sign and mark before 

 you even as a hunter tracks his quarr}^, leaving nothing behind over- 

 looked, or without having been subjected to keen research; go slowly to 

 your decisions; but having once reached your conclusion, stand by your 

 guns and defend your position to the utmost limit of your strength, for I 

 tell j-ou that science has no use for a wobbly disciple. And then when 

 you come to stand where I do now, and look back on the road over which 

 you have come, winding and twisting, far, far away into the dim distance, 

 even to the horizon of your youth, you shall mark that there was the place 

 of dire conflict; further onward was where you were sorely wounded and 

 almost overcome; still further yet lies that wilderness in which the path 

 was lost and j'ou wandered aimlessly until almost driven to despair; but 

 even as you gaze, the mists of trial, trouble and despair will rise and float 

 away, and the glorious beams of the sun of victory shall shoot forth illum- 

 inating all the land, and you conquerors! shall rejoice in your achievements 

 splendidly accompHshed, and in your honors nobly won." 



[Dr. Elliot's address was separately published in May, 1914.] 



April 14, 1914' — The President in the chair. Thirteen 

 members and about forty visitors present. 



Mr. Granger reported for the Auditing Committee that the 

 Treasurer's report had been examined and found correct. 



Mr. Cleaves reported a small deficit for the American Bird- 

 Banding Association and asked for $15.00, which was unani- 

 mously granted from the Treasurj^ 



Mr. J. M. Johnson reported for the Projectoscope Committee 

 that the Convertible Balopticon was the only machine suited 

 to the Society's needs. It would cost $282.00. The Chair 

 remarked that this matter would better not be taken up until 

 next autumn, as the spring season was so nearly over. 



Mr. Johnson recorded a Glaucous Gull {Larus hyperhoreus) 

 on the Basin (near the Potomac River) in Washington, D. C, 

 which remained in the vicinity for several days, being first 

 seen on April 5th and last on the 9th. The bird had been 

 satisfactoril}^ identified by Messrs. Rogers, Nichols and Preble, 

 as well as himself. 



Dr. F. M. Chapman spoke of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet {Regu- 

 lus c. calendula), which he had heard singing that morning at 

 Englewood. 



Mr. Rogers reported finding on March 21 in Van Cortlandt 



