116 Palmer, Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the A.O. U. [£)£ 



Say, copies of portraits and publications of Long, Say and Peale, 

 pictures of Say's home and several unpublished manuscripts served 

 to visualize the work of these early explorers. 



Results. In addition to the opportunities for personal conference 

 and discussion, for comparison of specimens and consultation of 

 books and records, several important results were accomplished 

 during the sessions. Chief among these were the formal accept- 

 ance of the William Brewster Memorial and the appointment of a 

 special committee to administer the fund, the reorganization of the 

 Committee on Nomenclature and Classification of North American 

 Birds, authorization of the appointment of a committee to prepare 

 a decennial index of 'The Auk' covering the years 1911 to 1920, 

 consideration of the plan for the 'Systema Avium' undertaken by 

 the B. O. U., and a proposal for an International Ornithological 

 Congress in 1921. Those who attended the New York meeting 

 will long remember the first reunion after the war as one combining 

 the interests of the present with memories of the past and especially 

 in affording unusual opportunities of visiting Audubon's home and 

 monument and examining the original drawings of his great work 

 'The Birds of America.' 



The next meeting will be held in Washington, D. C, in Nov- 

 ember, 1920. 



PROGRAM 



(Papers marked with an asterisk were illustrated by lantern slides) 



Tuesday 



1 In Memoriam — Lyman Belding. Dr. A. K. Fisher, Washington, 



D. C. (30 min.) 



2 Greetings from the British Ornithologists' Union. W. L. Sclater, 



London, England. (20 min.) 



3 Exhibition of a Sparrow-proof Bird-nesting Box. Ernest Thompson 



Seton, Greenwich, Conn. (5 min.) 



4 Recollections of Audubon Park. Dr. Geo. Bird Gnnnell, New York. 



(20 min.) 



5 Winter Bird Life in Montana. Aretas A. Saunders, South Norwalk, 



Conn. (20 min.) 



6 A few Words for a. Slighted Bird [the Coot]. Dr. Harry C. Oberholser, 



Washington, D. C. (10 min.) 



7 Nesting Habits of the Nighthawk at Tacoma, Wash J. Hooper 



Bowles, Tacoma, Wash. (Read by title). 



