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of this committee, was to apportion 

 it according to the number of sub- 

 scribers to The Oologist based upon 

 our subscription list, as the same is 

 scattered over the country. In this 

 way all parts of the country will be 

 given representation, and given rep- 

 resentation in proportion to the num- 

 ber of actual active collectors there. 

 This can best be shown by the sub- 

 scription books of this magazine, be- 

 cause about all of the active Oologists 

 of North America are subscribers. 



In pursuance of this we have divid- 

 ed the country into districts, and ap- 

 portioned this committee to each dis- 

 trict in proportion to the number of 

 subscribers of The Oologist therein as 

 follows : 



Pacific Coast, Area, Three Commit- 

 teemen, from California, Oregon and 

 Washington. 



Intra-Mountain, Area, Three Com- 

 mitteemen, from Arizona, Colorado, 

 Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, 

 Utah, Wyoming. 



Western Area, Three Committee- 

 men, from Arkansas, Kansas, Minne- 

 sota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Okla- 

 homa, South Dakota, Texas. 



Central West area. Three Commit- 

 teemen, from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, 

 Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Wiscon- 

 sin. 



Central East Area, Four Committee- 

 men, from Deleware. Maryland, Penn- 

 sylvania, New Jersey, New York, West 

 Virginia. 



New England Area, Three Commit- 

 teemen, from Connecticut, Maine, Mas- 

 sachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode 

 Island, Connecticut. 



Southern Area, Three Committee- 

 men, from Alabama, Georgia, Florida, 

 Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

 North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten- 

 nessee, Virginia. 



Canadian Area, Three Committee- 

 men, from Canada. 



It must be distinctly understood 

 that all Oologists have the right to 

 vote for the full twenty-five members 

 of the committee on values. But also 

 that no vote for more than the num- 

 ber to be elected for any of the sev- 

 eral areas will be counted. To illus- 

 trate, an Oologist from Illinois, may 

 vote for three committeemen from 

 each of the several areas, but not for 

 more than the number to be selected 

 from such areas, severally, and if he 

 does vote for more than the number 

 to be elected from any area the vote 

 will be counted only for the first 

 named up to the number to be elected. 



Please make out your votes at once 

 upon the receipt of your February 

 Oologist, and forward the same to Dr. 

 B. R. Bales, of Circleville, Ohio, who 

 has kindly written us that he will do 

 anything he can to help the good work 

 along, and we are sure that he will 

 gladly count the votes and send us 

 the result of the ballot to publish. 



When this committee is elected we 

 will send to each one of them a list 

 of North American Birds and each 

 member can then place the price of 

 each egg that he feels competent to 

 price upon the list and return it to us 

 and we will then submit these lists to 

 a committee of three, to be elected by 

 the committee of twenty-five who will 

 harmonize the differences in the lists 

 of the twenty-five upon such basis as 

 they or the twenty-five shall determine 

 best. We suggest that the committee 

 of three shall be composed of men 

 who are none of them members of the 

 committee of twenty-five. This would 

 make them a sort of supreme court 

 of last resort. 



Finally we desire It distinctly under- 

 stood that while the editor is willing 

 to shoulder the expense and much of 

 the detail occasioned by this under- 

 taking, we will not accept election, 

 nor serve upon either of the commit- 



