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of the rarer specimens m the museum is being prepared for publi- 

 cation in The Wilson Bulletin. 



Our committee of Ways and Means, composed of Messrs Sweuk, 

 Stephens and Bales, are reporting good success toward achieving 

 the results aimed at. There is a strong current of feeling that 

 The Wilson Club shall go forward. 



Quite a lot of interest is being attached to the outcome of the 

 work of our two membership teams, which are being captained by 

 Dr. T. C. Stephens of Sioux City, and Dr. Geo. R. Mayfield of Nash- 

 ville, Tenn. If the members of these teams " acquit themselves 

 nobly " we shall have something laudatory to say of them in a 

 future issue. Aside from their actual results there will be much 

 satisfaction, in knowing that the work of the organization is being 

 carried on by many willing hands. 



Future meeting places for the Wilson Club are now receiving 

 careful consideration. A most cordial invitation from our Chicago 

 members has been extended and the Windy City bids fair to land 

 the next meeting. Whenever the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, with which The Wilson Club is associated, 

 meets within the middle west it is a distinct advantage for us to 

 meet with them. The A. A. A. of S. registration at Chicago was 

 nearly 2500 and many of our members, being connected with other 

 of the affiliated organizations, are thus able to kill two birds with 

 one stone. The meeting places for the A. A. A. of S., thus far 

 chosen, are: 1921, Toronto; 1922, Boston; 1923, Cincinnati; 1924, 

 Washington; 1925 not yet decided upon, but Nashville, Tenn., will 

 make a strong bid for the honor. 



The draining of the Florida lakes and Everglades goes stead- 

 ily on and a consequent diminution of the water-bird life is inevit- 

 able. Such species will not adapt themselves to new breeding 

 grounds but will die out like the vast number of water-birds which 

 formerly bred on the western plains. Visitors returning from Flor- 

 ida are predicting that its east coast will finally outstrip southern 

 California as a winter resort. If only from a commercial stand- 

 point, Floridians should conserve their water birds to offset in a 

 way the glories of California's mountains. 



The 1920 report of the U. S. Biological Survey is of much in- 

 terest to ornithologists, mamologists, and conservationists gener- 

 ally. We learn therein that among the publications ready to be 

 issued are three state lists, viz.. Birds of Texas, Birds of New Mex- 

 ico, and Birds of Alabama. Two hundred and fifty observers filled 

 out and sent in the standard migration blanks during the year. 

 Seventy bird reservations are now established, on thirteen of 

 which wardens are maintained throughout the year. Permits for 



