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Ing in Washington, D. C, early in April to accommodate many 

 members who cannot attend the November meeting because of 

 school duties at that time. For the first time in the hstory of the 

 Union the elections of Fellows resulted in filling up that class to 

 the limit of fifty. Five were elected to the class of Members, which 

 is the limit set for any one stated meeting. A large number of 

 Associates were added to the membership. The finances were 

 shown to bfe in a satisfactory condition. It is to be regretted that 

 it does not now seem feasible to hold meetings of this organiza- 

 in the interior of the country. The need for such a meeting will 

 be only partly met by the proposed spring meeting at San Fran- 

 cisco in connection with the Panama Exposition in 1915. Mem- 

 bers living in the Mississippi Valley might well bestir themselves 

 for inviting the Council to appoint a meeting somewhere in the 

 central part of the country. 



So many persons are now interested in birds there is hardly a com- 

 munity where more than one bird student cannot be found. We offer 

 the suggestion of a plan iof study which is believed would result in 

 much valuable information. All interested persons in a commu- 

 nity arrange for simultaneous study in any selected region, each 

 person studying a different locality. When the work is completed 

 merge the different individual reports into one and study the re- 

 sults. In this W:ay the whole region could be covered in a single 

 day and the status of the bird life in it would be more accurately 

 learned than where all go on a stated excursion together. If such 

 studies could be cai'ried througih, the year the result should be a 

 more accurate list of the birds of that particular region than could 

 possibly be obtained by one person in any number of years of study. 

 But if such a scheme cannot be worked out for the whole year it 

 should be entirely possible to arrange for such cooperative studies 

 for one day at a time. It might well be tried for some January 

 day to learn of the ■\^anter population, and as many days as possi- 

 ble during the spring migration, to determine the relative abund- 

 ance of species on a given day as well as keeping track of the mi- 

 grations as a whole. Try it. 



A large list of nominations for membership is nearly ready for 

 submission to the members at large. It cannot be printed in this 

 issue of the Bulletin, but will be submitted through the mails a 

 little later. 



