The Hummingbird Drawer. Case X, Drawer 6, Main Building 



For the sake of getting well under way, this liberal policy will prevail until 

 August 1st, 1920, and those who present themselves before that date (and prior to 

 the adoption of formal by-laws) will be considered charter members of the order. 

 After August 1st, it will be necessary to observe a little more formality, and to con- 

 sider only recommended applicants. 



Those who do not care to identify themselves so fully with the new movement, but 

 who wish it well and who desire to keep in touch with the activities of the M. C. O. 

 through its Journal — may become Associate Members by the payment of One Dollar a 

 year. The privileges offered to Associates are subscription to the Journal, identifica- 

 tion with the movement, and mutual acquaintance through annual publication of 

 names. 



Further, in order to promote the interests of the order through the co-operation 

 of other public museums, any director of a public museum which contains a collection 

 of birds or birds' eggs, or any curator of a department of ornithology or oology in a 

 chartered public institution, may become a Member of the Museum of Comparative 

 Oology upon application and the payment of a registration fee of one dollar. It is 

 understood, further, in the case of such director or curator members, that they will 

 become responsible for the placing of their official bulletin, or other organ, upon the 

 "Journal's" exchange list. 



Brethren, orrmis ex ovo! The hen is on. The case is in your hands. If co- 

 operation is the key word, let's work it. The Members of the Museum of Comparative 

 Oology want your co-operation, your membership, your counsel, your contribution, 

 your loyal support. Join the boosters! Send all applications and enclosures to the 

 Secretary, Museum of Comparative Oology, Santa Barbara. Make cheques or money 

 orders payable to George S. Edwards, Treasurer, if you please. And because this 

 call will be received in all parts of the English-speaking world, we rule that in spite 

 of the present and most regrettable exchange differential, the payment of One Guinea 

 on the part of British subjects, shall be deemed the equivalent of Five Dollars in settle- 

 ment of annual member dues. 



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