110 Palmer, Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the A. 0. U. [j a u n k 



THE THIRTY-SEVENTH STATED MEETING OF THE 

 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



BY T. S. PALMER. 



The Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History in New York, November 10-13, 1919. On account of 

 the epidemic of influenza which prevailed in 1918, this meeting was 

 the first public one held for two years and the first one since the 

 war. Naturally the attendance was above the average and the 

 program more extended than usual — in fact the meeting continued 

 beyond the formal sessions and with the excursions occupied most 

 of the week. 



Attendance. The total attendance of Fellows, Members, Asso- 

 ciates and visitors was about 125. The Fellows present numbered 

 28, as many as attended the New York meeting of 1913 and the 

 largest number at any meeting in the history of the Union. Among 

 those present were three of the nine surviving Founders, Dr. J. A. 

 Allen, Chas. F. Batchelder, and Dr. A. K. Fisher and ten members 

 elected at the first meeting in 1883: seven Fellows; Prof. W. B. 

 Barrows, Ruthven Deane, Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Dr. Geo. Bird 

 Grinnell, Dr. T. S. Roberts, John H. Sage, and W. E. Saunders; 

 two Members, E. T. Seton and C. H. Townsend; and one Associate; 

 H. K. Coale. The Union had the unusual pleasure of entertaining 

 one of its Honorary Fellows, William Lutley Sclater, of London, 

 well known as the editor of 'The Ibis' and the author of many 

 important publications on ornithology. Thirty-five years ago the 

 Union had the pleasure of greeting Mr. Sclater's father, the late 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, who with the late Howard Saunders was visiting 

 America and attended the second meeting in New York, in 1884. 

 Among others who came from a distance were two representatives 

 from the region west of the Mississippi River, Dr. T. S. Roberts 

 of Minnesota and H. S. Swarth from California; four from Canada, 



