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ance at that meeting need no assurances that it was worth the 

 while of those who could attend. If no program of papers were 

 presented it would yet be well worth while for us to get together 

 for the personal acquaintance and the interchance of experiences 

 and viewpoints. We of the central districts have all along lacked 

 the impetus which has been gained by the people of both coasts 

 through the personal acquaintance which has obtained there to 

 so considerable a degree. While our distances are greater we 

 may, and we expect, to largely offset this handicap by holding suc- 

 cessive meetings at places which can be easily reached by prac- 

 tically all in the central districts, in the course of a four-year 

 period. 



Minutes of Third Annual Meeting of the Wilson 

 Ornithological Club 



(Columbus, Ohio, December 28 and 29, 1916.) 



President, T. C. Stephens. 



Secretary, T. L. Hankinson. 



(Archaeological and Historical Museum.) 



Business. 



Treasurer's report read and accepted and an auditing committee 



appointed. 

 Names of fifty applicants for membership were read, and these 



were elected to membership by vote of the members present. 

 The overtures of the Nebraska Ornithological Union resulting in 

 the affiliation of this organization with the Wilson Ornitho- 

 logical Club were accepted by a vote of the members present. 

 The articles of agreement that were read are here publishd: — 



ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT 



for an 



AFFILIATION 



between the 



NEBRASKA ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION 



and the 



WILSON ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



The following Articles of Agreement, looking toward an affil- 

 iation between the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union and the Wilson 

 Ornithological Club, are to be presented to the N. O. U. at its An- 

 nual Meeting at Omaha, May 7, 1915, and to the W. 0. C. at its 

 Third Annual Meeting at Columbus, Ohio, December 28, 1915. 



In the event of their constitutional adoption by both Societies, 



