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THE ASSOCIATED BODIES 



Cooperation the Key-note 



In proposing the Museum of Comparative Oology, neither the founders nor the 

 men and women associated with them as trustees, expected nor intended to do all the 

 work themselves. What they did intend was to sound the call to cooperative effort in 

 the establishment of a museum which should belong not alone nor chiefly to Santa Bar- 

 bara, but to Science. In this they pledged the good name and the good faith of the com- 

 munity for the financial support of the young institution, but they expected — and expe- 

 rience has pleasantly justified this expectation — that the working ornithologists, and 

 especially oologists, of the world would adopt this institution as their own, that they 

 would welcome its proffered services, that they would recognize its claim to leader- 

 ship in its narrow chosen field, and that they would endow it with material culled 

 from a thousand shores. 



In sounding this call to cooperation, the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative 

 Oology are acting not only in good faith, but in supreme confidence that museum 

 material so gathered, and housed according to plans laid out at the time of foundation, 

 can be administered to the greatest good of oological science. This institution, then, 

 is dedicated to the public; it is freely administered for the good of Science; and it 

 invites cooperation of every kind and degree of responsibility. In inviting favors the 

 museum also offers honors, and it is forming by means of these reciprocal benefits a 

 group of associated bodies, dedicated alike to the service of science, to the upbuilding 

 of the institution, and to the prosecution of personal ends which are at once joyous 

 and profitable. 



An Elaborate System 



To achieve the ends of cooperation an elaborate and far-reaching system has been 

 devised. It is the province of this article to set forth, briefly, the conditions and claims 

 and benefits of each associated body or group of the Museum's well-wishers, and to 

 invite the fullest cooperation along these lines. First', after the Trustees themselves, 

 who alone constitute the legally responsible administrative and controlling body, we 

 have the 



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