iSSS.] Fifth Mectiug of the American Ornithologists Union. 



97 



The Constitution and By-Laws presented had been ch-awn up 

 by a Committee of the Council, appointed for the purpose last 

 year,* and had been carefully revised by the Council, and were 

 now recommended to the Union for adoption. 



The matter of incorporation had been considered by the 

 Council, and the President had been instiucted to appoir.t 

 a committee, of which he was to be chairman, to secure the 

 incorporation of the Union under the laws of the State of New- 

 York. 



Following the report from the Council came the election <;f 

 members, resulting in the election of all of the candidates recom- 

 mended by the Council. The new Constitution and By-Laws 

 were then considered, and, with slight modifications, adopted as 

 presented.! 



An election of officers was then held, under the provisions of 

 the new Constitution and By-Laws, which require seven Coun- 

 cillors instead of five. This, with the vacancy in the Council 

 resulting from Professor Baird's death, required the election 

 of three new members to the Council. The officers of the 

 previous year were all re-elected, but Mr. Cory declined to serve 

 another year as Treasurer, and Mr. William Dutcher was 

 elected to the vacancy. The additional members of the Coun- 

 cil are Messrs. Charles B. Cory, D. G. Elliot, and Leonhard 

 Stejneger. 



On suggestion of the President a committee (consisting of Dr. 

 George Bird Grinnell, William Dutcher, and George B. Sen- 

 nett) was appointed to co-operate with a committee of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences in the work of soliciting subscriptions 

 for the erection of a monument to John James Audubon in Trinity 

 Church Cemetery, New York City. The tomb of America's 

 great bird painter and ornithologist has sadly fallen into decav, 

 and is very obscurely marked ; it therefore seems especially fit- 

 ting that the American Ornithologists' Union shoidd take active 

 measures to aid the movement already started to erect a proper 

 monumentto this distinguished pioneer in American ornithology, 



»See Auk, Vol. IV, p. 57. 



t As the new 'Constitution and By-Laws' — adopted finally under the title 'By-Laws 

 and Rules,' — are published, together with the Membership Lists, with the present 

 number of The Auk,' no special synopsis of them is required in the present connection. 



