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Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club. 



publishers, "Gameland" for May, '97, and 

 the "Story of the -Farallones* " 



It was proposed as an amendment to the 

 Constitution that the word "May" in Art. 

 VIII, Sec. 1, be changed to "August." 

 (All active members wishing to vote on 

 this amendment should send their proxy 

 to the Secretary before June 11.) 



Mr. Newton read an article entitled, 

 "Notes on Some of Our Swamp Birds." 

 He spoke especially of Red-winged Black- 

 birds, Long- billed Marsh Wrens, Yellow 

 Warblers, and American and Least 

 Bitterns. 



List of Members 



Elected since the publishing of Bulletin No. 1. 



ACTIVE. Date of Election. 



Eddy, N. A., Bay City Mar. 12. 



Fox, Miss Frances Margaret, Bay City. .... .May 3. 



Harris, John W., Ann Arbor Apr. 16. 



Morrill, W. P., Ann Arbor Apr. 16. 



Oldfield, W. A., Port Sanilac. Mar. 12. 



Trombley, Jerome, Petersburg Apr. 16. 



Van Winkle, Edmund, Peoria, 111 Mar. 12. 



ASSOCIATE. 



Abbott, Gerard, Hillsdale Apr. 16. 



Bailey, Dr. G. H, Hillsdale Mar. 12. 



Dickenson, J. E., Kockford, 111. Apr. 16. 



Gow, Alexander, Windsor, Ont. Mar. 12. 



Groh, Miss Amber, Trenton .May 14. 



Henninger, Rev. W. F. , South Webster, O. . Mar. 12. 



Higgins, Miss Clara A., Detroit Mar. 12. 



Johnson, Walter A., Galesburg, 111 Mar. 12. 



Law, J. E., Madison, Wis Apr. 16. 



Lewis, Harry, Lansing Apr. 16. 



Longyear, B. O., Agricultural College Mar 12. 



Melville, W. P., Windsor, Ont Mar. 12. 



Oakley, D. W. J., Detroit Apr. 16. 



Peterson, Eryl S. , Brooklyn Mar. 12. 



Primrose, John H, Tecumseh . . . Apr. 16. 



Seely, D A., Agricultural College Mar. 12. 



Van Pelt, A. W. , Muskegon Mar. 12. 



Yorke, F. Henry, M. D., Foosland, 111 May 3. 



LEON J. COLE, Secretary. 



Chief Pokagon will have an article in the May 

 Osprey, on the great flocks of Chimney Swifts seen 

 by him many years ago, when a boy in the Michigan 

 forests. 



Mr. Walter A. Johnson, Galesburg, 111., editor of 

 The Osprey, writes, "I do not believe that the 

 Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club will 

 hurt the financial side of 'The Osprey,' and I am sure 

 it will help the ornithological side of 'The Osprey's 

 editor.' " Mr. Johnson has joined the Club and 

 offers to help us in anyway possible. 



Messrs. Osborn and Mills, of the migration com- 

 mittee, met at the Michigan Club Banquet, in 

 Detroit, and had a pleasant chat. 



Walter B. Barrows. 



We were favored in our first Bulletin, with an 

 excellent half-tone of Walter B. Barrows, Professor 

 of Zoology and Physiology in the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College, and also State Zoologist. Thinking it 

 will be of interest, we will give a few facts regarding 

 his life. 



Prof. Barrows was born at Grantville, Mass., on 

 January 10th, 1855. He received his education at 

 the public schools of Reading, Mass., and at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . From the 

 latter place he graduated in 1876. Immediately 

 after graduating he became assistant in Ward's 

 Natural Science Establishment at Rochester, N. Y. 

 In 1879 he sailed to Argentine Republic and became 

 Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the 

 the National College at Conception. During his 

 second year's vacation, he served as Geologist on an 

 exploring expedition to the Pampian Sierras. 



On returning to the United States, he at once 

 became Instructor in Science at Westfield, Mass. 



This position he soon resigned to accept one as 

 Instructor in Biology at the Wesleyan University 

 Middletown, Conn. Here he remained until 1886. 

 During 1885 and 1886, he also acted as Instructor in 

 Botany at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Having 

 been appointed Assistant Ornithologist of the U. S. 

 Dep't. of Agriculture, he went to Washington in 

 1886. He fulfilled the duties of this office for about 

 eight years, when he resigned to accept his present 

 position at the Michigan Agricultural College. 



Prof. Barrows' career as a scientist has been that 

 of one of our best investigators. He has worked in 

 many fields of science, but his great work has been 

 in the lines of zoology and geology. The study of 

 birds has always been his favorite pursuit. As early 

 as 1876, he wrote an article regarding the classifica- 

 tion of the Alcidae (Auk family). He published his 

 Birds of the Lower Uruguay as a serial of four articles 

 two of which appeared in the Bulletin of the Nuttal 

 Ornithological Club, and the other two in the first 

 issues of the Auk. He also wrote a hundred pages 

 of theStandard Natural History, on the birds of prey. 



Perhaps he is best known by his work on the 

 English Sparrow and by the one on the American 

 Crozv. These appeared as bulletins of the Division 

 of Ornithology and Mammology from the Department 

 of Agriculture at Washington. Prof. Barrows is a 

 member of many of our leading scientific associations. 

 He is an active member of the American 

 Ornithologists, Union, and has recently been elected 

 to the Zoological Society of France. He was one of 

 the original members of the Nuttal Ornithological 



Club. 



T. L. H. 



