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these Articles of Agreement are to go into effect at the time of the 

 Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the N. O. U. in May, 1916. 



These Articles of Agreement are made in duplicate, one signed 

 copy to remain in the Archives of each Society concerned. 



Articles of Agreement. 



Article I. 



The Nebraska Ornithologists' Union shall continue as an au- 

 tonomous organization, with the same local meetings and field 

 days and the same membership limitations as in the past, but it 

 shall in the future be regarded in addition as an auxiliary of the 

 Wilson Ornithological Club, in the sense that the Wilson Bulletin 

 shall become its official organ and that every member of the N. 

 O. U. becomes automatically an active member, with voting privi- 

 leges, of the W. 0. C. 



Article II. 



An appropriate statement of the relation of the Wilson Bulletin 

 to the N. 0. U. shall appear on the title page and the editorial 

 page of the Wilson Bulletin, so long as such relationship exists. 

 The publication of the "Proceedings" of the N. O. U. shall be dis- 

 continued at the close of Volume 6, before May 1, 1916, after which 

 the Wilson Bulletin shall print brief proceedings of the Annual 

 Meetings of the N. 0. U. 



Article III. 



A clear and detailed statement of the affiliation of the N. 0. U. 

 with the W. O. C, together with a brief historical sketch of the 

 N. 0. U. and its "Proceedings," shall be published in the first is- 

 sue of the Wilson Bulletin after the affiliation is consummated. 



Article IV. 

 The Secretary-Treasurer of the N. 0. U. shall collect from the 

 members of that organization $2.00 annual dues, and shall pay to 

 the Treasurer of the W. O. C, at the beginning of the fiscal' year 

 of the N. 0. U., $1.50 as dues in the W. O. C. for each member of 

 the' N. 0. U. in good standing, at the same time transmitting to 

 the Treasurer, or other proper officer, of the W. O. C, a correspond- 

 ing list of'^the members of the N. O. U. in good standing. The 50 

 cents collected by the N. O. U. above its obligation to the W. O. C. 

 shall be used for the general expenses of the N. O. U. and to assist 

 in the publication of independent (not serial) monographic papers 

 on the birds of Nebraska, and such publications shall bear the im- 

 print of both the N. 0. U. and the W. 0. C. Such papers shall be 

 sold by the N. 0. U. to its members and to members of the W. O. C, 

 who may desire them, at cost. 



