64 Tenth Congress of the A. O. U. pes 
status of membership as follows: Active Members, 45; Hon- 
orary Members, 22; Corresponding Members, 74; Associate 
Members, 416. , Total, 557, showing an increase of 64 for the 
year. During the year the Union lost by death Dr. John Amory 
Jeffries, an original Active Member, who died in Boston, Mass., 
March 26, 1892; Dr. Hermann Burmeister, an Honorary 
Member, who died in Buenos Ayres, May 1, 1892, in his 86th 
year; and Capt. Thomas Wright Blakiston, an original Corres- 
ponding Member, who died in San Diego, California, Oct. 15, 
1891, aged 59 years. The report of the Treasurer showed the 
finances of the Union to be in excellent condition. 
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year, Mr. 
D. G. Elliot declining to be a candidate for reélection as Presi- 
dent: Elliott Coues, President; William Brewster and Henry 
W. Henshaw, Vice-Presidents; John H. Sage, Secretary; 
William Dutcher, Treasurer. Three Active Members were 
elected, as follows: Frederic A. Lucas, Witmer Stone and 
Leverett M. Loomis. Sixty-seven Members were added to the 
Associate list. 
The usual reports of Committees were received, and the pro- 
posed amendment to Article V, Section 4, of the By-Laws was 
adopted. In order to gain more time for the reading of papers, 
it was voted that in future a session shall be held during the 
evening of the day on which the stated meeting of the Council is 
held, for the election of officers and members and the transaction 
of the usual routine business of the Congress, which heretofore 
has occupied the greater part of the first day’s session. As the 
stated meeting of the Council is held on the day preceding the 
meeting of the Union, this change adds one day to the time 
available for the reading of papers, practically without extending 
the length of the Congress. 
A resolution was also adopted that on the decease of any Active 
Member of the Union, the President shall appoint a committee 
of one to prepare a suitable memorial of the life and work of the 
deceased member, to be read at the first stated meeting of the 
Union, and to be published in ‘The Auk’ as an expression of the ~ 
sense of the Union. 
The following papers were presented : 
1. Birds of Lewis and Clarke in 1892. Elliott Coues. 
2. Summer Birds of Indiana and Clearfield Counties, Pa. W. E. Clyde 
Todd. 
