THE WILSON BULLETIN 



Published at Oberlin, Ohio, by the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



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EDITORIAL 



The brightest spof in the whole summer trip, which the editor 

 was privileged to make last summer, was the stay of his party at 

 the Lake Okoboji McBride I^ake Laboratory. It was not merely a 

 haven of rest, after the four days of wallowing in the mud of the 

 incomparably rich soil of Iowa, but as well a liaven for study. 

 Dr. Wylie, the Director, and Dr. Stephens, one of our ex-presideuts. 

 made our stay of three days the best three days of the whole trip. 

 They were ably seconded by the other members of the staff of the 

 Laboratoiy. 



The short trip to Alaska, after the close of tlie automobile trip, 

 through the Inside Passage to Skagway, and from there over the 

 White Pass and Yukon railway to White Horse, Yukon Territory, 

 by boat through the chain of Atlin lakes in nortliern British Colum- 

 bia, was a fitting climax to the summer wanderings. The most 

 notable birds seen on this trip were the swarms of short-billed 

 gulls along the Inside Passage, and the Hudsoniau chickadees and 

 and Townsend's solitaire in the lodge-pole pine forests at White 

 Horse. There was some evidence of a small nesting colony of her- 

 ring gulls at the north end of lake Bennett. We were there be- 

 tween the visitations of the mosquitoes and the " noseeums," there- 

 fore our stay was a pleasant one. If there were migrations in 

 progress no evidence of such could be seen. The weather was cool. 



Never in the history of the Wilson Ornithological Club has 

 such a wealth of good material been offered for publication. To 

 the editor it is becoming not only clear but imperative that some 

 plan should be devised immediately whereby more of these papers 

 can be published. The most obvious plan would be to increase 

 the number of pages to 64 per issue, and for this increase in value 

 charge larger membership fees and subscription rates. There is no 

 likelihood that publication prices will ever reach the pre-war rates, 

 or even approach them, at least for some years to come. Reduction 

 of the size of the Wilson Bulletin with membership dues and sub- 

 scription rates remaining the same would be suicidal. Members 

 should plan to be present at the next annual meeting and be pre- 

 pared to reach a solution of this problem. It is vital. 



