64 Tenth Congress of the A. O. U. LJan. 



status of membership as follows : Active Members, 45 ; Hon- 

 orary Members, 22 ; Corresponding Members, 74 ; Associate 

 Members, 416. Total, 557, showing an increase of 64 for the 

 year. During the year the Union lost by death Dr. John Amory 

 Jeffries, an original Active Member, who died in Boston, Mass., 

 March 26, 1S92 ; Dr. Hermann Burmeister, an Honorary 

 Member, who died in Buenos Ayres, May 1, 1892, in his 86th 

 year ; and Capt. Thomas Wright Blakiston, an original Corres- 

 ponding Member, who died in San Diego, California, Oct. 15, 

 1 891, aged 59 years. The report of the Treasurer showed the 

 finances of the Union to be in excellent condition. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year, Mr. 

 D. G. Elliot declining to be a candidate for reelection as Presi- 

 dent : Elliott Coues, President ; William Brewster and Henry 

 W. Henshaw, Vice-Presidents; John H. Sage, Secretary; 

 William Dutcher, Treasurer. Three Active Members were 

 elected, as follows: Frederic A. Lucas, Witmer Stone and 

 Leverett M. Loomis. Sixty- seven Members were added to the 

 Associate list. 



The usual reports of Committees were received, and the pro- 

 posed amendment to Article V, Section 4, of the By-Laws was 

 adopted. In order to gain more time for the reading of papers, 

 it was voted that in future a session shall be held during the 

 evening of the day on which the stated meeting of the Council is 

 held, for the election of officers and members and the transaction 

 of the usual routine business of the Congress, which heretofore 

 has occupied the greater part of the first day's session. As the 

 stated meeting of the Council is held on the day preceding the 

 meeting of the Union, this change adds one day to the time 

 available for the reading of papers, practically without extending 

 the length of the Congress. 



A resolution was also adopted that on the decease of any Active 

 Member of the Union, the President shall appoint a committee 

 of one to prepare a suitable memorial of the life and work of the 

 deceased member, to be read at the first stated meeting of the 

 Union, and to be published in 'The Auk' as an expression of the 

 sense of the Union. 



The following papers were presented : 



1. Birds of Lewis and Clarke in 1892. Elliott Coues. 



2. Summer Birds of Indiana and Clearfield Counties, Pa. W. E. Clyde 

 Todd. 



