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regret at not being able to be present and wishing the Society a 

 successful metting. The interim election of Airs. Lily R. Button 

 to membership in the Union was formally approved, and the fol- 

 lowing nine new members elected to the Union : Prof. W. B. 

 Johns, of York; Mr. B. J. Olson, of Kearney; Mr. Thos. R. Hill, 

 Mrs. H. D. Neely, Mrs. W. F. Baxter, Miss lone C. Duffy and 

 Miss Elizabeth Rooney, of Omaha, and Mrs. W . E. Barkley and 

 Miss Anne Stuart, of Lincoln. Miss Caroline Stringer, a former 

 member who resigned in 1907, was, at her request, reinstated to 

 membership in the Society. 



The question of affiliation with the Wilson Club was then taken 

 up. The proposed plan was outlined and explained by M. H. 

 Swenk, who read the following articles of agreement as the 

 proposed basis of affiliation : 



ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT 



The following Articles of Agreement, looking toward an affilia- 

 tion between the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union and the Wilson 

 Ornithological Club, are to be presented to the N. O. U. at its 

 Annual Meeting at Omaha, May 7, 1915, and to the W. O. C. 

 at its Annual Meeting at Chicago, in December, 1915. 



In the event of their constitutional adoption by both Societies, 

 these Articles of Agreement are to go into effect at the time of 

 the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the N. O. U. in May, 1916. 



These Articles of Agreement are to be made in duplicate, and 

 one properly signed copy is to remain in the archives of each 

 Society concerned. 



Article I. 



The Nebraska Ornithologists' Union shall continue as an autonomous 

 organization, with the same local meetings and field days and the same 

 membership limitations as in the past, but it shall in the future be re- 

 garded in addition as an auxiliary of the Wilson Ornithological Club, in 

 the sense that the Wilson Bulletin shall become its official organ and that 

 every member of the N. O. U. becomes automatically an active member, 

 with voting privileges, ot fhe W. O. C. 



Article II. 

 An appropriate statement of the relation of the Wilson Bulletin to 

 the N. O. U. shall appear on the title page and the editorial page of the 

 Wilson Bulletin, so long as such relationship exists. The publication of 



