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ture, the A. O. U. special cars being attached to a train of the Santa 

 Fe Railway leaving that city at 10.30 p. m., May 3 ; and San Fran- 

 cisco was reached on the afternoon of May 14. The eleven days 

 thus spent were exceedingly profitable to the travelers, the 

 journey being broken at several points for the purpose of making 

 side trips to places of special interest, as the old historic town of 

 Santa Y€ in New Mexico, where a day was spent; at Adamana, in 

 eastern Arizona, in the Little Colorado Desert, a day was given to 

 the wonderful 'Petrified Forests ' ; two days were allotted to a side 

 trip from Williams, Arizona, to the Grand Canon of the Colorado; 

 a morning at Hesperia, Arizona, gave opportunity for an examina- 

 tion of the famous yucca trees in the Mohave Desert ; an afternoon 

 at Riverside, California, was a delightful experience, and a day's 

 stop at Los Angeles was improved by many of the party to make 

 a trip to the summit of Mount Lowe. 



Very few of the members of the party had previously visited the 

 country traversed, and everything was new and intensely interest- 

 ing ; and, fortunately, among the few to whom the country was 

 not new were experts who through previous extended field work in 

 the region were able to give information respecting its topographic 

 features and the peculiarities of its flora and fauna. 



At Chicago an informal reception was given to the A. O. U. 

 members by Mr. and Mrs. Ruthven Deane, at whose house they 

 thus had opportunity to meet many Chicago ornithologists and 

 naturalists ; a reception was tendered them at Los Angeles by the 

 Southern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club. \\\ San 

 Francisco they received a most cordial welcome from the members 

 of the Cooper Ornithological Club and the California Academy of 

 Sciences, the Museum of the Academy forming the general head- 

 quarters, and in its lecture hall was held the two days' joint ses- 

 sion of the A. O. U. and the Cooper Club. 



The purpose of holding a meeting of the A. O. U. at some point 

 on the Pacific coast was, primarily, to bring together as many as 

 possible of the working ornithologists of the East and the West ; 

 it was therefore especially opportune that the first special meeting 

 of the A. O. U. and the Tenth Anniversary meeting of the Cooper 

 Ornithological Club could be held in joint session. 



The meeting was called to order at 11 a. m,, May 15, Dr. C. 



