Jan., 1917 



MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 



The secretary pro tern., read the minutes 

 of the August meetings of the Northern and 

 Southern divisions. Mr. Walter A. Staf- 

 ford, Miss Helen Gilkey and Mrs. Elizabeth 

 H. Price, together with the June and July 

 nominees of the Southern Division, were 

 elected to membership. Mr. William C. 

 Boeck, Berkeley, and Mr. Frederick P. Sha- 

 fer, San Diego, endorsed by Mr. A. L. Bar- 

 rows, were proposed for membership in the 

 Club. Proposals from the Southern Divi- 

 sion were Dr. H. Gifford and Miss Bertha 

 Elizabeth Crawford. 



The business for the evening having been 

 disposed of, Mr. W. L. Dawson led in a dis- 

 cussion of the relation of the California Jay 

 to the nesting of small birds. — C. L. Camp, 

 Secretary pro tern. 



October, — The regular monthly meeting of 

 the Northern Division was held at the Mu- 

 seum of Vertebrate Zoology, October 19, 

 1916, at 8 p. m., with the following members 

 present: Messrs. Anderson, Dawson, Grin- 

 nell, Swarth, Squires, Storer, Lastreto, 

 Wright, Evermann, Hansen, La Jeunesse; 

 Mesdames Grinnell, Swarth, Schlisinger; 

 Misses Wythe, Sweezy, and four visitors. 



The minutes of the September meeting 

 were read and approved, and the minutes of 

 the Inter-Mountain Chapter were read. The 

 names proposed at the September meeting, 

 namely, Wm. C. Boeck, Fred C. Shafer, Miss 

 Bertha Elizabeth Crawford, and Dr. H. Gif- 

 ford, were voted upon favorably and the 

 persons declared members of the Club. 

 Frank J. Steinmetz, 1021 Ramona Street, 

 Palo Alto, was proposed for membership by 

 J. O. Snyder, and Frances Webster Fish, 

 2325 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, was pro- 

 posed by Mrs. J. T. Allen. 



Mr. Swarth then gave an interesting re- 

 view of work done on the recent field inves- 

 tigation carried on by himself and others in 

 the Sierras. A discussion followed in which 

 some of the unsolved problems of bird mi- 

 gration were considered. Dr. Grinnell ques- 

 tioned whether any birds ever nest at a low 

 altitude and then later in the same season 

 at a higher altitude. The fact was also 

 brought out that while the varied thrushes 

 are already plentiful in the Sierras no one 

 had seen any in the San Francisco Bay re- 

 gion, suggesting that the representatives of 

 this species to appear first are from the 

 far northern and interior parts of north- 

 western America, and that the coast birds 

 move down the humid coast strip later. 



The club then adjourned for informal dis- 

 cussion and comparison of personal observa- 

 tions. — W. A. Squires, Secretary pro tern. 



SOUTHERN DIVISION 



September. — Regular monthly meeting of 

 the Southern Division, Cooper Ornithological 

 Club, was held at the residence of Dr. L. H. 

 Miller, at 3:00 p. m., September 24, 1916, 

 with President Miller in the chair, Mr. W. 

 Lee Chambers as Secretary pro tern., and the 

 following members present: Messrs. Apple- 

 ton, Cookman, Cox, Chambers, Evan Davis, 

 Edwards, Law, Miller, Pierce, Lawrence Pey- 

 ton, Sidney B. Peyton; Mesdames Bicknell, 

 Fargo, Law, Meyers, and Pleasants; and 

 Misses Dodge, Drachman, Moore and Swift. 

 Visitors were Dr. R. M. Anderson, Mrs. J. S. 

 Appleton, Mrs. Foster Elliott, Mrs. R. M. 

 Anderson, Miss Fargo, Miss Marsh, Miss Eda 

 Mills, Miss Miquel and Miss Reaves. 



The persons whose names were proposed 

 at the August meeting were elected to mem- 

 bership, and the following were nominated: 

 Dr. A. A. Hummell, Los Angeles, by Dr. L. 

 H. Miller; Mrs. Foster Elliott, Los Angeles, 

 by Mrs. H. W. Meyers. 



The only business brought before the meet- 

 ing was a letter from Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson 

 — asking all bird friends to enter a protest 

 with Secretary Franklin K. Lane against the 

 throwing of Malheur Lake out of the bird- 

 refuge list and allowing it to be drained and 

 turned into agricultural land. A motion 

 was made by J. Eugene Law, seconded by 

 Mrs. Pleasants, instructing the Secretary of 

 the Cooper Ornithological Club to write a 

 vigorous letter of protest to Secretary Lane. 

 Adjourned. — W. Lee Chambers, Secretary 

 pro tern. 



Octoeer. — Regular monthly meeting of the 

 Southern Division was held at the Museum 

 of History, Science and Art, October 26, 1916, 

 with President Miller in the chair and the 

 following members present: Messrs. Apple- 

 ton, Brown, Colburn, Chambers, Daggett, 

 Holland, Howell, Huey, Jesurun, Little, Mil- 

 ler, Tallman, Willett, and Wyman, and Miss 

 Palmer. 



Minutes of the August and September 

 meetings were read and approved, followed 

 by reading of the minutes of the Northern 

 Division for August, September and Octo- 

 ber, and of the Inter-Mountain Chapter for 

 May, June and September. 



Dr. A. A. Hummell, and Mrs. Foster Elli- 

 ott, both of Los Angeles, were elected to 

 membership on motion of Mr. Daggett, sec- 

 onded by Mr. Chambers. Applications for 

 membership were received from the follow- 

 ing: Ridley Holleman, 215 Ogden St., San 

 Antonio, Texas, by H. W. Carriger; Marion 

 Randall Parsons, Mosswood Road, Berkeley, 



