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sonal acquaintance than chance meetings, or attendance upon the 

 meetings of the A. O. U. Few persons find it possible to go so 

 far as it is necessary to go in order to be present at the A. O. U. 

 meetings,, and it does not seem feasible to schedule the meetings 

 in the Interior at the in'esent time. With the working out of the 

 plan for annual meetings in the Interior evei'ybody will be in 

 sufficiently close touch with some meeting place to make it possi- 

 ble for him to attend. The Cooper Club on the Pacific side, the 

 A. O. U. on the Atlantic, and the Wilson Club iu the Interior. We 

 believe that this movement will prove of great advantage to the 

 cause of Ornithology everywhere. 







The thirtieth stated congress of the American Ornithologists 

 Union convened in Cambridge on November 11, 1912, in the mu- 

 seum of Mr. William Brewster, at 8 :15 in the evening. Routine 

 business was transacted, reports received and members elected. 

 Mr. C. William Beebe of New York City, Edward Howe Forbush of 

 Westboro, Mass., and Louis Agassiz Fuertes of Ithaca, N. Y., 

 were elected Fellows : Frederic H. Kennard, Newton Centre, 

 Mass. ; Dr. John C. Phillips, Wenham. Mass. ; Miss Althea R. Sher- 

 man, National, Iowa ; Alexander Wetmore, Washington, D. C. ; and 

 Norman A. Wood, Ann Arbor, Mich., were* elected Members, and 

 184 to the class of Associate Members. On Tuesday, Wednesday 

 and Thursday mornings, and Tuesday ajid Wednesday afternoons 

 public meetings were held in the University Museum, when papers 

 were presented. Nine of the twenty-one papers were illustrated 

 with lantern slides, and two others with specimens. It was es- 

 pecially gratifying to see, in a cage, a real live Heath Hen, from 

 the colony on Marthas Vineyard Island, where the last of that 

 interesting race are now being protected and permitted to increase. 



The meetings were largely attended, and a wholesome inter- 

 est was shown. Cambridge is noted for its large number of 

 bird students, and the attendance of those not members gave clear 

 evidence of the truth of this statement. 



Many of the members accepted the invitation of Col. John E. 

 Thayer to visit his estate and museum at Lancaster, Mass., on 

 Friday, and were more than repaid by the splendid entertainment 

 afforded by Col. Thayer. No collection in the country can equal 

 the Thayer collection in the number of rare specimens and books 

 which he has gathered there. This visit was a fitting climax to a 

 most enjoyable and profitable meeting of students of the birds. 



