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sheathbill and pipit breeding on the Island. Numerous colored 

 lantern-slides and skins of the different birds illustrated the 

 talk. Mr. Murphy also gave a summary of the climatic and 

 other conditions on South Georgia; and discussed several 

 questions raised by members of the audience. 



November 10, 1914. — The President in the chair. Twelve 

 members and five visitors present. 



A letter from the Geological Survey of the Department of 

 Mines of Canada was read, requesting the gift of a set of the 

 Society's publications, and asking the price if they were to 

 be had only through purchase. It was voted that a Committee 

 composed of the President, the Librarian and the Secretary, 

 all ex-officio, be empowered to act on this and on all future 

 requests of a like nature. 



Mr. Edward Fleischer and Mr. E. Sidney Marks, whose 

 names had been proposed at the previous meeting, were elected 

 to Resident Membership. 



Mr. Rogers transmitted an offer from Mr. Cleaves to show 

 the Society his two thousand feet of motion pictures if the use 

 of the Museum's auditorium and apparatus could be secured. 

 The matter was referred to the Committee on Papers and 

 Lectures. 



The question of what use should be made of our Bird Obser- 

 vation Blanks was again raised and it was voted that the 

 Publication Committee consider the matter and submit a plan. 



It was further voted that the Committee on Projectoscopes 

 resume the investigations it had dropped for the summer. 



Mr. Kieran reported a male Chaffinch (Fringilla c. coelehs) 

 November 2 at the foot of Spuyten Duyvil hill. Mr. Weber 

 remarked that that locality had been a favorite one with bird 

 catchers, who used birds such as the Chaffinch for decoys, and 

 that Mr. Kieran's bird may have been an escaped decoy. 



Several members spoke of Hermit Thrushes {Hylocichla 

 guttata pallasi) as having been more than usually common 

 lately. They had been seen in St. Paul's Churchyard (Kieran), 

 in front of the Museum (Nichols) and at other city points as 

 well as in their more ordinary haunts. 



Mr. LaDow reported for Mr. Griscom that the latter had 



