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"Dr. Elliot's speech at the Annual Dinner was printed separately and 

 distributed. 



"The preparation of an Abstract to contain simply the minutes of the 

 past two years is well under way and should be out this spring, thus bringing 

 the series up to date. 



"But few exchanges have been added to the library and preparations 

 for exchanging with a number of field naturalist clubs in the British Isles 

 and on the Continent were cut short by the present war." 



Charles H. Rogers, 



Secretary pro tern. 



Mr. J. M. Johnson reported for the Committee on Projecto- 

 scopes that after consideration, and consultation with other 

 members, it was deemed inadvisable for the Society to purchase 

 a projectoscope at the present time. 



The following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing 

 year: 



Pkesident, Jonathan Dwight, Jr. 

 Vice-President, Julius M. Johnson. 

 Treasurer, Lewis B. Woodruff. 

 Secretary, Charles H. Rogers. 



The Palisades Interstate Park question was again raised and 

 discussion ensued, all who had been in the Park agreeing that 

 its natural beauty was being very seriously marred by the 

 efforts of the Interstate Park Commission to ''improve" it. 

 Mr. Murphy stated that our member Mr. Quarles, Second 

 Vice-President of the American Game Protective Association, 

 and Dr. George F. Kunz, President of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, had requested copies of our recent correspondence 

 with the Commission; and the Secretary was authorized to 

 supply them. The members, especially those who had them- 

 selves seen the devastation in the Park, were urged to write 

 personal letters of protest to the Commission, and to get inter- 

 ested friends to do likewise. 



Mr. Nichols gave an account of the status of the Red-headed 

 Woodpecker {Melanerpes erythrocephalus) in the Englewood 

 region. Ordinarily it is a rare transient in May and September. 

 Late last autumn he found two at Grantwood and saw one there 

 regularly for two or three weeks. He watched it storing Pin 



