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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



popular form, in teaching, and in arous- 

 ing an interest in birds among the 

 younger generation, they have already 

 accomplished invaluable work. The ob- 

 servations of Miss A. K. Sherman and 

 Mrs. Irene G. Wheelock, the works of 

 Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller and Mrs. 

 Mabel Osgood Wright need only be 

 mentioned as illustrations, while the 

 interest which Mrs. Russell Sage has 

 shown in the cause of popular educa- 

 tion and bird protection has made pos- 

 sible results accomplished by few other 

 persons either in this country or abroad. 



Meetings and Field Journeys of 



THE American Ornithologists' 



Union 



Eegular meetings are held annually, 

 usually in November, and continue 



John Hall Sage, president of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, today. — Prior to becom- 

 ing president of the Ornithologists' Union he 

 served as secretary of the organization for twenty- 

 eight years. He is a Fellow of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science and 

 a member of the New York Academy of Sciences 

 and of the Biological Society of Washington. In 

 collaboration with Dr. L. B. Bishop he published 

 The Birds of Connecticut, in 1913. (Half tone 

 from a photograph taken in 1918) 



four or five days. The first day is de- 

 voted to the transaction of business and 

 the next three days to public sessions 

 for the presentation of scientific papers. 

 An informal dinner is usually arranged 

 for one of the evenings, and the fifth 

 day is devoted to an excursion or a visit 

 to some zoological garden, museum, or 

 other point of ornithological interest. 

 The excursions have included, besides 

 zoological gardens, several points of his- 

 toric or scientific interest such as Au- 

 dubon's home, Bartram's garden, "and 

 the Xew Jersey pine barrens near Phila- 

 delphia; the I^ew York Aquarium and 

 the Brooklyn Museum; trips to Con- 

 cord, the Thayer Museum at Lancas- 

 ter, and the Ipswich sand dunes from 

 Cambridge ; and the headquarters of 

 the Biologists' Field Club at Plummer 

 Island in the Potomac near Washing- 

 ton. As a matter of convenience, meet- 

 ings are usually held in the four cities 

 which have large public museums and 

 near which most of the members are 

 located, namely, Cambridge, New York, 

 Philadelphia, and Washington. Local 

 scientific societies such as the Xuttall 

 Ornithological Club of Cambridge, the 

 Linna'an Society of New York, the Del- 

 aware Valley Ornithological Club, and 

 the Biological Society of Washington 

 usually take part in entertaining the 

 members. 



On two • occasions, in May, 1903, 

 and May, 1915, the Union crossed 

 the continent to meet in San Francisco 

 with the Cooper Ornithological Club. 

 On the former occasion a week was 

 spent en route and stops were made at 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico; in the Painted 

 Desert, and at the Grand Caiion in Ari- 

 zona ; and in the Mohave Desert, and 

 at Los Angeles in southern California. 

 Side trips were also made to Monterey, 

 the Farallon Islands, Los Banos, and 

 the Yosemite Valley, thus affording 

 most favorable opportunities for com- 

 paring the fauna and flora of several 

 widely different regions. On the latter 

 occasion stops were made at the Grand 



