EXCHANGE PRICE LIST ~ 13 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 
For several years there has been a growing need for a new catalog of North 
American birds’ eggs with a revision of the prices used as a basis of exchange. 
Realizing this need, early in the year 1919, Judge R. M. Barnes, editor of 
The Oologist, proposed that a committee of twenty-five of the leading oologists 
of North America be elected by the oologists at large to perform this revision. 
More than one hundred votes were received and the following were elected as 
members of “The Committee of Twenty-five’’: 
Pacific Area: 
J. Hooper Bowles, Tacoma, Wash. 
H. W. Carriger, Oakland, Calif. 
W. L. Dawson, Santa Barbara, Calif. 
Intra-Mountain Area: 
A. O. Treganza, Salt Lake City, Utah 
EK. F. Pope, Albuquerque, New Mexico 
F'". C. Willard, Farmingdale, L. I., N. Y. 
Western Area: 
Rev. P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids, Kansas 
Rev. H. E. Wheeler, Fayetteville, Arkansas 
Guy Love, Oberlin, Kansas 
Central Western Area: 
A. E. Price, Grant Park, Ill. 
G. A. Abbott, Tulsa, Okla. 
Dr. B. R. Bales, Circleville, Ohio. 
Eastern Area: 
Hon. J Parker Norris, Philadelphia, Pa. 
R. C. Harlow, State College, Pa. 
T. H. Jackson, West Chester, Pa. 
EK. H. Short, Rochester, N. Y. 
New England Area: 
Col. John HE. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 
A. C. Bent, Taunton, Mass. 
Roscoe I. Giles, Marlboro, Mass. 
Southern Area: 
Troup D. Perry, Savannah, Ga. 
O. E. Baynard, Plant City, Fla. 
H. H. Bailey, Newport News, Va. 
Canadian Area: 
Edward Arnold, Montreal, Quebec 
R. W. Tufts, Wolfville, Nova Scotia 
Walter Raine, Toronto, Ontario 
A circular letter sent to the members of this committee by W. L. Dawson, 
from the Museum of Comparative Oology, called for an election of officers and 
offered several timely suggestions. The election of officers resulted as follows: 
Honorary President, A. C. Bent; Chairman, Dr. B R. Bales, Secretary, Rev. H. 
E. Wheeler. 
By an overwhelming vote, it was decided not to quote birds’ eggs at a market 
cash price, but “to express the rarity of birds’ eggs in terms of dollars and 
cents.” It was also decided that each member of the committee should work in- 
dependently and send the results of his labor to the chairman of his particular 
area who would make an average for the area and forward the result to a 
“Committee on Final Values,” to be appointed by the chairman of the “Com- 
mittee of Twenty-five.” 
