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its first President, with the writer as Secretary. It is pretty 

 clear that this Chapter grew directly out of the Young 

 Ornithologists' Association, which was organized some years 

 earlier by Mr. L. 0. Pindar, of Hickman, Ky., in an informal 

 way, and became a formal organization on May 29, 1886, by 

 the adoption of a constitution. 



Of the 36 members on the original roll of the Wilson 

 Ornithological Chapter of the Agassiz Association but four 

 are on our present roll. They are : Frank L. Burns, Ber- 

 wyn. Pa. ; John H. Sage, Portland, Conn. ; R. M. Strong, 

 University of Chicago, and Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. Mr. 

 Burns has held all of the offices of the organization, includ- 

 ing the editorship of its official organ for the year 1901, and 

 has written the most notable papers which the Club has pub- 

 lished. Mr. Sage has long been a member of the Executive 

 Council. Dr. Strong has also occupied every office and in 

 addition handled the business end of the official organ in 

 1892, when the Wilson Quarterly succeeded the Semi-Annual 

 as our official organ. The writer has tried to do his part in 

 keeping the movement going. 



Perhaps the greatest interest clusters around the various 

 publications which have served as the official organ of the 

 organization, but mention should be made of the change in 

 the name which resulted in casting loose from the parent 

 Agassiz Association, late in 1902, and reorganizing under a 

 new constitution and adopting the present name. The first 

 organization had been avowedly for the purpose of bringing 

 together, in a mutual sort of way, the yoUnger ornithologists 

 of this country, but with the passage of time so many grew 

 to man's estate that the inevitable must happen, so the apron 

 strings were cut. To those who have followed the career of 

 the Club it will seem clear that this cutting loose was neces- 

 sary for the further growth of the cause which the organiza- 

 tion represented. 



The first official organ of the then Agassiz Chapter was the 

 Curlew, a twelve-page 3x5 printed page monthly published 

 by 0. P. Hauger, Orleans, Ind. This little paper enlarged 

 the size of page to 4x6i/2 with the sixth number, issued the 



