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Elizabeth and I attended the annual meeting of the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union
at Lincoln. The Omaha attendance was very fair, for which we are glad, as it is really
Omaha’s year to have the meeting, and it was virtually offered to us, but a careful
survey of the local situation convinced the few active workers here (Omaha) that a
more successful session could be held at Lincoln, and we voted accordingly.

The sessions were very interesting and we disposed of considerable business. We are
in good financial condition, and at the close of this session number almost two hundred
members, of which about 40% are active. We spent some time in discussion of the attitude
of our society towards the Audubon Society, and laid out a plan which I believe will
put us on a harmonious basis. I was elected president for the ensuing year, an honor
which I surely appreciate.

At the public sessions the papers were interesting and varied. I regretted the absence
of Carriker, who was to have given a talk on the observations of himself and others in Costa
Rica.

Elizabeth was entertained by Prof. Bruner’s family, while I went with my good friend Wolcott, who impresses and enthuses me more every time I meet him.

We went hurriedly over a few cases of Prof. Bruner’s wonderful collection of Orthoptera, which were a revelation to us.

I was given a beautiful pendant nest of a Costa Rican oriole (Eucorystes wagleri Gray) — a mass of Villandsia four feet in length, taken from a tree in which there were
about two dozen nests.

We returned to Omaha Sunday afternoon.