THE AMERICAS UliS I'LllULUUlSTS' L'MUX 



477 



is clix'ted hv tlic council 



II 



all the otlic'tT 



some of tliciii 



I tunes, 

 president. 



miinher ( 

 tile lil'.-t 

 vears and tilled 

 the position of 

 editor for twenty- 

 eight years. Mr. 

 Jolin H. Sajie, 

 the |)i'c>cnl |)i-esi- 

 deiit. \va> eli'cied 

 in l!tlT. after 

 havinii- servi'd as 

 secretary for 

 t wen ty - eight 

 years. Two of 

 the treasurers. 

 Mr. William 

 Dutcher and Dr. 

 J o n a t h a n 

 Dwight, have 

 served sixteen 

 and (ifteen years 

 re spec t i vely. 

 Thus the general 

 policy 'of the 

 Union has heen 

 maintained on a 

 singularly uni- 

 form and con- 

 servative hasis. 



W (» M !•: X A s 



w o u k e r s in 



Orxitiiology 



.\ltliongli 

 elected anmuilK 

 hren I'ci'lccteil a 



Dr. -I. .\. .Mien, 

 served for seven 



Dr. .loel Asai>li At 



^Membership in 

 the Union is open 



to women on the .same terms as nuMi. Sex 

 has been no bar to election, ami iiiei'i- 

 torious work In' women has always re- 

 ceived prompt recognition. More than 

 140 women are now on the rolls, four 

 of whom have been elected ^lembers. 

 and one a Corresponding Fellow. They 

 take part in the annual meetings and 

 frequently present papers containing 

 im))ortant original observations, it i> 

 hardly to be expected that women will 

 have the same active interest as men in 

 collecting binls in the field, but several 



Ins eightieth birthday, served seven years as the 

 first president of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, and twenty-eight years as editor of its pub- 

 lications. He is author of nearly one thousand 

 papers and reviews on ornithology, many bio- 

 graphical sketches of ornithologists, and a series 

 of papers on nomenclature, besides many publica- 

 tions on mammals and other subjects. This photo- 

 graph was taken in 1885 when he became cura- 

 tor of ornithologj' and mammalogj' in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, with which institu- 

 tion the A. O. U. has always been very closely 

 associated 



(d" the nienilxM's do not hesitate to ven- 

 ture into the wilds in (|uest of speci- 

 niciis and data when o|iporluinlv oll'ers. 

 Di-. I'jnilia Snethlage, a ( 'orrt'sponding 

 I'^ellow who is director (d' the Para Mu- 

 seum in Brazil, 

 has made several 

 expeditions into 

 the tropical for- 

 ests of the Ama- 

 zon region, and 

 published the sci- 

 entific results of 

 her trips. Miss 

 Annie ^f. Alex- 

 andei', founder of 

 the Museum of 

 Vertebrate Zool- 

 ogy at Berkeley, 

 California, has 

 organized and 

 personally con- 

 ducted several 

 expeditions to 

 Alaska and to 

 remote sections 

 of (Vdifornia. 

 ^Irs. Florence 

 ^Merriain Bailey 

 has accom])anie(l 

 her husl)and on 

 many field trips 

 in the West and 

 has tluis col- 

 lected material 

 foj- her well- 

 known Iliindhook 

 of I he Bivfh of 

 ilie Wcslcni I'lilfril Shilcs. her recent 

 papers on the birds of the Glacier Xa- 

 tional Park, and other publications on 

 the hii'ds of the West. Mrs. Bailey was 

 the first woman elected to the Union 

 and for two years was the only femi- 

 nine member. 



Tn several lines of work women are 

 especially fitted not only to inak'e suh- 

 .-tantial contributions to knowledge but 

 to adxance the cause of ornithology. In 

 making oliservations on habits and nii- 

 gi'ation. in ])reseiiting the subject in 



who has just celebrated 



