©r,nit^aIogUls' l(mnn. 1883. 



Hon. Charles Aldrich. 

 Qeorqe N. Lawrence, 



COUNCILOR. 



William Brewster, 



COUNCILOR. 

 EUQENE P. BiCKNELL. 



Dr. J. M. Wheaton. 



Dr. a. K. Fisher. 



Prof. Elliott Coues, Charles F. Batchelder. 



VIOE-PRESIOEMT. 



Dr. D. W. Prentiss. H.B.Bailey. 



THE HISTORICAL 



GROUP 



OF 



THIRTY-FIVE 



YEARS 



AGO 



The group includes the 

 tvvcntytliree Founders and 

 Messrs. H. W. Henshaw 

 and G. N. Lawrence ^^■^lO 

 were members of the first 

 CounciL The call for ths 

 original meeting was 

 signed by J. A. Allen, 

 Elliott Coues. and Wil- 

 liam Brewster. Thirteen 

 of these members are still 

 living, and nine, includ- 

 ing Ur. Allen who served 

 for seven years, have 

 filled the office of presi- 

 dent. Five. including 

 Civptain Charles E. Ben- 

 dire, Dr. Elliott Coues, 

 Dr. E. A. Mearns, Ur. 

 D. W. Prentiss, and 

 Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. 

 served in the Army; of 

 these. Dr. Shufeldt, now 

 a major in the Medical 

 Corps, is the onl> sur- 

 vivor. Among the other 

 more prominent members 

 were Professor Baird, 

 secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian ' Institution and 

 •Xestor of American Or- 

 nithologists"; Mr. George 

 X. Lawrence who assisted 

 in the preparation of 

 several early government 

 reports on birds; and the 

 following ex-presidents: 

 Charles F. Batchelder. 

 for manv vears associate 

 editor of Thf Auk; C. B. 

 Cory, who has published 

 extensively on the birds 

 of the West Indies; Dr. 

 D. G. Elliot, author of 

 numerous illustrated mon- 

 ographs on birds ; Dr. 

 A. K. Fisher, who has 

 given special attention to 

 hawks and owls; Dr. C. 

 Hart Merriam. founder 

 of the Biological Survey 

 in the L'nited States De- 

 liartment of Agriculture; 

 and Robert Ridgway. 

 curator of birds in the 

 United States National 

 Museum. whose groat 

 work on the Birds of 

 Siirth and Middh Amer- 

 ica is now in course of 

 publication. When these 

 I)hotographs were taken, 

 com))aratively few of the 

 members had accom- 

 plished the work which 

 lias since made them well 

 known 



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