EXCHANGE PRICE LIST 13 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 



For several years there has been a growing need for a new catalog of North 

 American birds' eggs with a revision of the prices used as a ba'sis of exchange. 



Realizing this need, early in the year 1919, Judge R. M. Barnes, editor of 

 The Oologist, proposed that a committee of twenty-five of the leading oologists 

 of North America be elected by the oologists at large to perform this revision. 

 More than one hundred votes were received and the following were elected as 

 members of "The Committee of Twenty-five": 



Pacific Area: 



J. Hooper Bowles, Tacoma, Wash 



H. W. Carriger, Oakland, Calif. 



W. L. Dawson, Santa Barbara, Calif. 

 Intra-Mountain Area: 



A. O. Treganza, Salt Lake City, Utah 



E. F. Pope, Albuquerque, New Mexico 



F. C. Willard, Farmingdale, L. I., N. Y. 

 Western Area: 



Rev. P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids, Kansas 

 Rev. H. E Wheeler, Fayetteville, Arkansas 

 Guy Love, Oberlin, Kansas 

 Central Western Area: 



A. E. Price, Grant Park, 111. 



G. A. Abbott, Tulsa', Okla. 



Dr. B. R. Bales, Circleville, Ohio. 

 Eastern Area: 



Hon. J Parker Norris, Philadelphia, Pa. 



R. C. Harlow, State College, Pa. 



T. H. Jackson, West Chester, Pa. 



E. H. Short, Rochester, N. Y. 

 New England Area: 



Col. John E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 



A. C. Bent, Taunton, Mass. 



Roscoe I. Giles, Marlboro, Mass. 

 Southern Area: 



Troup D. Perry, Savannah, Ga. 



O. E. Baynard, Plant City, Fla. 



H. H. Bailey, Newport News, Va. 

 Canadian Area: 



Edward Arnold, Montreal, Quebec 



R. W. Tufts, Wolfville, Nova Scotia 



Walter Raine, Toronto, Ontario 



A circular letter sent to the members of this committee by W. L. Dawson, 

 from the Museum of Comparative Oology, called for an election of officers and 

 offered several timely suggestions. The election of officers resulted as follows: 

 Honorary President, A. C. Bent; Chairman, Dr. B R. Bales, Secretary, Rev. H. 

 E. Wheeler. 



By an overwhelming vote, it was decided not to quote birds' eggs at a market 

 cash price, but "to express the rarity of birds' eggs in terms of dollars and 

 cents." It was also decided that each member of the committee should work in- 

 dependently and send the results of his labor to the chairman of his particular 

 area who would make an average for the area and forward the result to a 

 "Committee on Final Values," to be appointed by the chairman of the "Com- 

 mittee of Twenty-five." 



