° 1915 ] Sage, Thirty-third Stated Meeting of the A.O. U. 49 1 



O. P. Silliman, Castroville, Cal. 



Napier Smith, Montreal, Canada. 



Theodore L. Squire, Battle Creek, Mich. 



F. A. Stuart, Marshall, Mich. 



Mrs. Phillip B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colo. 



Phillip B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colo. 



Francis Thomas Sujak, Chicago, 111. 



Henry H. Townshend, New Haven, Conn. 



Dix Teachenor, Lawrence, Kansas. 



Roy A. Ward, Washington, D. C. 



Belle Williams, Columbia, S. C. 



Lem Williams, Shonkin, Montana. 



Miss Clara Lucretia Willis, Waban, Mass. 



Drs. Palmer, Stone, and Richmond, Prof. Cooke, and Ruthven 

 Deane, Avere appointed 'Committee on Biography and Bibliog- 

 raphy.' 



The amendments to the By-Laws, proposed at the last Stated 

 Meeting of the Union, were unanimously adopted. Members will 

 hereafter share with Fellows the business of the Union and the elec- 

 tion of Officers, Members and Associates. 



Public Sessions. First Day. The meeting was called to order 

 by the President, Dr. Fisher. 



The papers of the morning were as follows : 



'Notes on the Life-History of Penguins, with Special Reference 

 to the Origin of Certain Instincts,' by Robert Cushman Murphy. 

 Illustrated by lantern slides. 



' Oregon Bird Life in Motion Pictures,' by William L. Finley. 



The following papers were presented at the afternoon session 

 which was held at the Auditorium of the Eiler Musical Company, 

 in the Palace of Liberal Arts. 



' Philadelphia to the Coast in Early Days, and the Development 

 of Western Ornithology prior to 1850,' by Dr. Witmer Stone. 



' In Memoriam — Theodore Nicholas Gill,' by Dr. T. S. Palmer. 



'The Migration of Albatrosses and Petrels,' by Leveritt Mills 



Loomis. Remarks followed by Dr. Palmer, Messrs. Murphy and 



Nichols, and the author. 

 i 

 'A Late Nesting Record for the California Woodpecker,' by 



Mrs. Harriet Williams Myers. 



'The Average Age of the Herring Gull,' by John Treadwell 



Nichols. 



