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' Committee of Arrangements ' for the Meeting and for the 

 promptness and thoroughness with which he executed the 

 duties of this position. A Resolution of thanks was also 

 tendered the signers of the call^ in their capacity as a ' Com- 

 mittee of Organization/ for their zeal and efficiency in 

 issuing the call for the Meeting, as well as for the thorough 

 and systematic preparation they were able to make for the 

 speedy and satisfactory transaction of the business incident 

 to the organization of the Union. 



" The Session of the Convention occupied three days, and 

 was marked throughout with the utmost harmony. At 

 adjournment (subject to the call of the Council), hearty 

 expressions of satisfaction with the results of the Session 

 were heard from all who had shared in its deliberations. 

 The general good-feeling rose to a degree of enthusiasm 

 auguring well for the future work and prosperity of the 

 Union, the organization of which under such auspicious 

 circumstances cannot fail to mark an important era in the 

 progress of Ornithology in America. 



'^ As already stated, the matter of Publications was placed 

 in the hands of the Council, by which body the subject was 

 duly weighed after the adjournment of the Union. Naturally 

 the question of an organ in the form of a serial publication 

 was the first to present itself, and the impression was general 

 that such a publication must prove indispensable to the work 

 of the Union. It was accordingly voted to establish such a 

 journal, its publication to begin January 1884. Mr. Allen 

 was chosen editor, to be assisted by a staff of associate- 

 editors, likewise selected by the Council, who are collectively 

 to decide the character of the periodical, and to whom will be 

 entrusted its management. 



" It may be further announced in the present connexion 

 that, upon this action being known, it became a question 

 with the members of the Nuttall Ornithological Club whether 

 the Nuttall Club should continue to publish an organ which, 

 under the new conditions, could only be a rival of that of the 

 Union. The two organizations being virtually one in interest 

 and purpose (the later being to some extent an outgrowth of 



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