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Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



Tlie mectinji- of the American Ornithologists' Union in 

 Washington, D.C., on 8-11 November, 1920, was one of 

 tlie hirgest in the liistory of the Union. One-half of the 

 Fellows and aljoiit 10 per cent, of the entire membership 

 were in attendance. The business meetings on Monday were 

 held at the Cosmos Club, and the other sessions at the 

 U.S. National Museum. The election of Fellows and 

 Members included Ilobert Cushinan Murphy of Brooklyn, 

 N.Y., as Fellow ; E. C. Stuart Baker and Dr. Percy Lowe 

 of London, Honorary Fellows ; 13 Foreign Corresponding 

 Fellows, among whom were Miss Dorothea Bate, Major 

 Claude H. B. Grant, Miss Maud H. Ilaviland, Cai)t. Colling- 

 wood Ingram, David Seth-Smith^ and Miss Emma L.Turner; 

 5 Members and 307 Associates. The election of officers for 

 1921 resulted as follows: — President, Dr. AVitmer Stone, 

 Philadelphia; Vice-Presidents, Dr. George Bird Grinnell 

 and Dr. Jonathan D wight. New York ; Secretary, Dr. T. S. 

 Palmer, 1939 Biltmore St., Washington, D.C. ; Treasurer, 

 W. L. McAfee, iiiological Survey, Washington, D.C. The 

 single vacancy in the Council was filled by the selection of 

 Dr. W. H. Osgood of Cliicago, and the other six members 

 were re-elected. The program of nearly forty papers, five of 

 wliicli were illustrated by motion pictures, covered a wide 

 range of subjects relating to North American birds, and also 

 included papers on the birds of Argentina, Nicaragua, Peru, 

 Europe, and Madagascar. In connection with the meeting 

 an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and photographs of 

 birds by American artists, supplemented by a series of prints 

 showing the development of zoological illustration as applied 

 to birds from the earliest times down to date, was arranged 

 in the Division of Prints in the Library of Congress. 



T. S. Palmer, 



Secrettn'y . 



