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Wilson Ornithological Club Meeting 
AN INVITATION was extended by the Wilson Ornithological Club to our 
Society to meet with them in their annual meeting at the University of 
Illinois in Urbana on November 21-23. Programs were mailed to our mem- 
bers with an announcement of our acceptance, and quite a number were 
present to enjoy the opportunity of meeting and hearing papers by many 
of the outstanding ornithologists of the day. The meetings were held in 
various rooms of the University buildings and were sponsored by the 
Department of Biology, State Natural History Survey, Natural History 
Museum, Urbana-Champaign Bird Club, Animal Ecology Club, and Wildlife 
Club. 
A reading of the titles of the many papers as listed in the program is 
all that is needed to assure you of the great interest that every session 
provided, and a detailed report would require almost a reprinting of many 
of them, so full were they of the things we want to know. The showings 
of natural color motion pictures included several magnificent reels that 
called forth repeated bursts of applause and literally stagger one when he 
stops to think of the time and patience required for their making. Those 
who have seen them will not soon forget the beauty of the subjects and of 
the photography of such pictures as the nesting of the great blue heron and 
others by Murl Deusing; the courtship antics of the western grebe by W. F. 
Kubichek; the slow-motions of the geese by Cleveland P. Grant; the hawks 
soaring over Hawk Mountain as shown with the paper by Mrs. Rosalie 
Edge which was read by Roger Tory Peterson; the noddy tern and others 
by Karl H. Maslowsky; the first of a new series of educational films showing 
the blue jay and the bobolink prepared by Olin Sewall Pettingill; and the 
wood duck film made by Robert E. Hesselschwerdt of the Natural History 
Survey and shown by Dr. Frison. 
In spite of the very unfavorable weather outlook a field trip to the 
Havana and Chautauqua Lake region was conducted on Sunday by members 
of the Natural History Survey staff. Over 40 took advantage of the oppor- 
tunity to see the great rafts of ducks that congregate on the Illinois River 
and, the weather clearing, were favored with a view of what were estimated 
to be 100,000 ducks of various species. 
Our Board of Directors held its monthly meeting on Friday afternoon 
and were much pleased to have in attendance two members, Dr. T. E. 
Musselman of Quincy and Dr. R. E. Yeatter of Urbana, who have been 
prevented by distance from attending regularly. The new president, Dr. 
Strong, presided, and, among other things offered for consideration, the 
Board accepted an invitation to hold the spring meeting in Springfield, the 
dates and other details to be fixed and announced later. 
The Illinois Audubon Society appreciates greatly the courtesy of the 
Wilson Ornithological Club in inviting us to join with them on this occasion 
and acknowledges its indebtedness to them for a thoroughly profitable and 
enjoyable meeting. 
