Vol. xviii"! 



1901 



1 Eighteenth Congress of the A. O. U. 65 



The report of the Treasurer showed the finances of the Union 

 to be in a satisfactory condition. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam was elected President ; Charles B. Cory 

 and Charles F. Batchelder, Vice-Presidents; John H. Sage, 

 Secretary ; William Dutcher, Treasurer. Frank M. Chapman, 

 Ruthven Deane, E. W. Nelson, Witmer Stone, Drs. A. K. Fisher, 

 Jonathan Dwight, Jr., and Thos. S. Roberts, were elected mem- 

 bers of the Council. Dr. A. B. Meyer, of the Royal Museum, 

 Dresden, was elected an Honorary Member, and Count E. 

 Arrigoni Degli Oddi, University of Padua, Italy, and Walter E. 

 Bryant, of Santa Rosa, Calif., Corresponding Members. Seventy 

 new members were added to the list of Associates. The usual 

 reports of Standing Committees were received. 



A change in the By-Laws was proposed whereby the present 

 class of Active Members shall be known as Fellows ; the present 

 class of Associate Members to be known as Associates, and to 

 establish a class of membership intermediate between Fellows and 

 Associates to be known as Members. The matter will be brought 

 up for final action at the next Congress of the Union. 



A letter was read from Miss Juliette A. Owen, of St. Joseph, 

 Mo., an Associate Member, donating an additional $100 to the 

 Union. This will be added to a fund, the income of which is to 

 be used for the advancement of the science of ornithology. 



Public Session. First Day. — The meeting was called to 

 order by the President, Dr. Merriam. 



The first paper of the morning was a Memorial Address on the 

 Hon. Geo. B. Sennett, an Active Member, by Dr. J. A. Allen. 

 Mr. D. G. Elliot followed with a Memorial Address on Dr. Elliott 

 Coues, also an Active Member, and a former President of the 

 Union. 



The reading of scientific communications began with a paper by 

 Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., on ' The Sequence of Moults and Plum- 

 ages of the Laridai (Gulls and Terns).' Remarks followed by Dr. 

 T. S. Palmer, and the author. 



Next came ' A Study of the Genus StunieUa,^ by Mr. Frank M. 

 Chapman. Remarks followed by the Chair, Mr. William Palmer, 

 and the author. 



