INTRODUCTION 
At the 30th Congress of the American Ornithologists’ Union held 
in Cambridge, Mass., November 11, 1912, “it was voted to publish 
an additional Index to ‘The Auk’ covering the years 1901 to I9IO, 
inclusive,” on the same plan as the 25-year Index published in 1907. 
The appointment of the Committee to prepare and edit the Index 
was left to the president, Dr. Frank M. Chapman, who on December 
17, 1912, appointed Dr. T. S. Palmer chairman with power to select 
the members of the committee and proceed with the Index. A few 
weeks later a committee of 13 members was organized, with Prof. 
W. W. Cooke as secretary, and at a meeting on February 7, 1913, 
plans were perfected and the work distributed. Ten of the mem- 
bers undertook the actual indexing and the others the preparation of 
of the copy for the press and the correction of the proof. The 
members of the committee were as follows (those who served on 
the former Index Committee being designated by an asterisk) : 
ie. Palmer Chamman H.H. T. Jackson 
W. W. Cooke, Secretary W. L. McAtee 
Nee Rew ISiet; + Gerrit 5. WVinller a)t. 
N. Hollister Je ES Raley, 
A. B. Howell John. T. Tyler 
*A, H. Howell- Alex. Wetmore 
DEE, Lantz 
As the work progressed it became evident that much additional 
labor was necessary in securing full names of authors and other 
biographical data in order ‘to bring the Index up to the standard of 
modern bibliographical requirements adopted in the former Index. 
Eight members were therefore added as follows: 
*A. C. Bent J. W. Franzen 
*Ruthven Deane *C. W. Richmond 
Jee lemming *John: Hi. Sage 
E. H. Forbush *Witmer Stone 
The Committee was fortunate in securing the invaluable aid of 
Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Chairman of the original Index Com- 
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