Identifier: birdlore91907nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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inite shape. The following were chosen officers for1896: President, James Carroll Mead, North Bridgton, Maine; vice-presi-dent, Everett E. Johnson, Lewiston, Maine; secretary and treasurer,Ora W. Knight, Bangor, Maine. President Mead at once entered upon a campaign of reform by appoint-ing Mr. Adams, Mr. Lane and Mr. Powers a committee to revise the con-stitution. Negotiations were entered into with the leading papers ofthe state for space in which to publish the transactions, and the MaineSportsman, a monthly journal, published in Bangor, was decided uponas the most suitable organ. In the March number of that year there was apage devoted to our interests, edited by Ora W. Knight, of Bangor,and each succeeding issue contained a like amount of information, valuableto the student of ornithology. In the April number of 1895, the committee on new constitution ^ For Nos. I and 2 in this series, see Bird-Lore, IV, 1902, p. 12. The Nuttall Cluband Ibid., p. 57, The Delaware Valley Club. (65)
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Bird Clubs in America 67 reported their final draft, and in the May number President Mead was ableto report its unanimous adoption by the society. On December 28-29, 1896, the society held its first annual meetingin the high school building at Gardiner. The following officers wereelected for 1897: President, A. H. Norton, Westbrook, Maine; vice-president, Ora W. Knight, Bangor, Maine; secretary and treasurer,William L. Powers, Gardiner, Maine; councilors, A. L. Lane, Water-ville, Maine, and James Carroll Mead, North Bridgton, Maine. Fivenew members were elected at this meeting. Previous to this meeting, noneof the members, outside of the Gardiner branch, had ever met. In the spring of 1897, the hopes and ambitions of the members ofthe society were realized in the publication of The Birds of Maine,under the able editorship of Ora W. Knight, of Bangor, the list havingbeen prepared under the auspices of the society. Such was the demand forthis careful and concise work that the supply was

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