May, 1917 



MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 



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MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 



NORTHERN DIVISION 



January. — The regular meeting of the 

 Northern Division of the Cooper Club was 

 held at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 

 the evening of January 18, 1917, at eight 

 o'clock. The following members were pres- 

 ent: Messrs. Carriger, Evermann, Grinnell, 

 Hansen, Storer and Swarth, Mesdames Al- 

 len, Meade, Schlisinger and Wythe. The 

 minutes of the December meeting were 

 read and approved. 



Miss Emma Ward of Alameda and four 

 others, whose applications had been sent to 

 the Southern Division, were elected to mem- 

 bership, and the following names were pro- 

 posed: Mrs. Harriet P. Kelley, Berkeley, by 

 H. C. Bryant; C. R. Smith, San Francisco, 

 by Harold E. Hansen. 



The election of officers for the year 1917 

 was then called for, and the secretary was 

 instructed by vote of the Club to cast the 

 ballot for the following: for President, Dr. 

 Barton W. Evermann; for Vice-president, 

 Rev. W. A. Squires; for Secretary, Mrs. J. 

 T. Alien. 



Dr. Grinnell then gave a short talk on 

 "An invasion of Goshawks into California", 

 showing specimens to prove that the records 

 of this winter are of the American Goshawk 

 and not of the western subspecies. Two more 

 specimens of the "Tule Goose", a giant form 

 of the White-fronted Goose, found to be quite 

 numerous in the marsh lands of the Sacra- 

 mento Valley, were exhibited by Mr. Swarth. 

 Many informal observations were contrib- 

 uted by different members present, after 

 which the meeting adjourned. — Amelia S. 

 Allex, Secretary. 



February. — The regular meeting of the 

 Northern Division of the Cooper Club was 

 held at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 

 on the evening of February 15 at 8 o'clock. 

 The meeting was called to order by the 

 President, Dr. Evermann, with a large num- 

 ber present, among whom were Messrs. An- 

 derson, Bryant, Carriger, Dixon, Evermann, 

 Grinnell, Hansen, Heinemann, Lastreto, 

 Littlejohn, Ray, Squires, Storer, Swarth, 

 Webb, Wright; Mesdames Allen, Alexander, 

 Bryant, Culver, Dixon, Field, Lueddemann, 

 Kelley, Meade, Newhall, Price, Ray, Schlisin- 

 ger, and Wythe. Visitors: Mrs. Elliott, Miss 

 Straight, Miss Burt, Mr. Martens, and Mr. 

 Meade. 



The minutes of the January meeting were 

 read and approved, and those of the Decem- 



ber and January meetings of the Southern 

 Division were read. Mrs. Harriet P. Kelley 

 and Mr. C. R. Smith, whose names were 

 proposed at the January meeting, were elect- 

 ed to membership. Mrs. E. G. Witter, Berke- 

 ley, was proposed for membership by Mrs. 

 J. T. Allen, and eleven other names pro- 

 posed at the December and January meet- 

 ings of the Southern Division were submit- 

 ted for approval. 



Plans for the meeting of the Pacific Divi- 

 sion of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, to be held at Palo 

 Alto on April 5, 6 and 7, were announced 

 by the President. Mr. Lastreto, recently 

 elected President of the newly formed Au- 

 dubon Association of the Pacific, told of the 

 work awaiting them. On motion of Mr. 

 Swarth, the Northern Division adopted the 

 resolutions passed by the Southern Division 

 relative to the death of Dr. Mearns. A mo- 

 tion offered by Mr. Storer that the Cooper 

 Club pay the annual assessment of Five 

 Dollars to the Pacific Division of the Am- 

 erican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science was approved. 



The Executive Committee then submitted 

 for the approval of the Club the re-election 

 of the present incumbents as business man- 

 agers and editors of The Coxdor, namely: 

 Business Managers, Messrs. Chambers and 

 Law; Editor of The Coxdor, Dr. Joseph 

 Grinnell; Associate Editor, Mr. Harry S. 

 Swarth. These were declared unanimously 

 elected. Dr. Harold Bryant reported on 

 laws before the Legislature relating to de- 

 struction and conservation of bird-life. 



The business having been disposed of, the 

 Club was privileged to hear an account of 

 "The Home Life of Some Birds on the 

 Shores of Alaska" by Mr. Joseph Dixon. The 

 account was beautifully illustrated by lan- 

 tern-slides made from photographs taken 

 by Mr. Dixon during his nineteen months' 

 sojourn on the ice-bound seas beyond Point 

 Barrow. Adjourned. — Amelia S. Allex, 

 Secretary. 



SOUTHERX DIVISIOX 



February. — Regular monthly meeting was 

 held at the Museum of History, Science and 

 Art. The following members were present: 

 Messrs. Bishop, Brown, Colburn, Howell, 

 Holland, Huey, Lamb, Little, Miller, Nokes, 

 Van Rossem, Willett and Wyman. Mr. Paul 

 Hartman was a visitor. Minutes of the 

 January meeting were read and approved. 

 On motion, the secretary was instructed to 

 cast an electing ballot for the four persons 



