72 THE CONDOR 
were suspended and the Secretary instruct- 
ed to cast the unanimous vote of the club 
for Messrs. Dickey for President, Howell for 
Vice-President, and Wyman for Secretary. 
Motion carried and nominees’ declared 
elected. Consideration of other business 
matters was postponed on motion of Mr. 
Lamb until after the Secretary’s paper on 
“Birds cf the Thunder Mountain Trail.” 
Following a short recess the revised con- 
stitution presented at the December meeting 
was read and after long discussion was 
adopted by a vote of nine to three. Ad- 
journed.—L. E. WYMAN, Secretary. 
NORTHERN DIVISION 
DECEMBER.—The Northern Division of the 
Cooper Ornithological Club met at the Mu- 
seum of Vertebrate Zoology, December 16, 
at 8 p. M. President Wright presided and 
those in attendance were: Mesdames Allen, 
Bennet, Bridges, Grinnell, Law, Pringle, E. 
D. Roe, G. T. Roe, Thomson, and Wythe; 
Messers. Bell, Bryant, Carriger, Cooper, 
Dixon, Emerson, Evermann, Grinnell, Las- 
treto, Law, Mailliard, McLean, Noack, Rit- 
ter, Storer, and Wright; Visitors: Dr. Bai- 
ley, Mrs. Evermann, Mrs. Reygadas, Miss 
Howitt, Miss Wythe, Mr. Martens, and Mr. 
Baker. The minutes of the November meet- 
ing were read and approved. Mrs. Lydia 
Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Arnold, Mrs. 
Chas. Gilman Hyde, and Mr. Geo. B. Culver 
were elected members of the Club. The 
seventeen names presented at the October 
meeting of the Southern Division were also 
approved. New proposals were: Mrs. Flora 
Dudley, Hotel Paisley, Geary near Mason, 
San Francisco, by Mrs. E. D. Roe; Mrs. Ynes 
Mexia de Reygadas, Room 401, Medical 
Bldg., Hyde and Bush, San Francisco, Wm. 
Duncan Strong, 2522 Ridge Road, Berkeley, 
Miss Mildred Kellogg, 2232 Piedmont Ave., 
Berkeley, and Mr. Harold Hammond Cozens, 
3071 Bateman St., Berkeley, by Dr. H. C. 
Bryant. 
Nominations for officers for the year 1921 
resulted in the presentation of the follow- 
ing names to be voted on at the January 
meeting: For President, Mr. Curtis Wright; 
for Vice-President, Mr. H. S. Swarth; for 
Secretary, Mrs. J. T. Allen. All nomina- 
tions were promptly closed. 
Business completed, the club was privi- 
leged to listen to a paper by Prof. Wm. E. 
Ritter on “The Acorn-storing Habits of the 
California Woodpecker”. The speaker de- 
plored the existence of a great gap between 
laboratory science and the field observations 
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of naturalists, and urged more complete tab- 
ulation of data obtained by careful observa- 
tion of animals in the wild. Adjourned.—- 
AMELIA S. ALLEN, Secretary. 
JANUARY.—The Northern Division of the 
Cooper Ornithclogical Club met at the Mu- 
seum of Vertebrate Zoology, January 26, at 
8 P.M. President Wright presided and 
those in attendance were: Mesdames Allen, 
Blake, Burk, Flinn, Griffin, Grinnell, Law, 
McLellan, Reygadas, Rush, and Thomson; 
Messrs. Cox, Dixon, Emerson, Evermann, 
Grinnell, Lastreto, Law, Mailliard, McKib- 
ben, McLean, Miller, Storer, Swarth, and 
Wright. Visitors: Mrs. Calhoun, Mrs. 
Del Port, Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. Evermann, 
Mrs. Thomson, and Mr. Jencks. The 
minutes of the December meeting were 
read and approved. Mrs. Flora Dud- 
ley, Mrs. Reygadas, Mr. Strong, Miss 
Kellogg, and Mr. Cozens were elected mem- 
bers of the Club. New proposals were: Miss 
Una Boyle, 132 Laurel Place, San Rafael, 
by T. I. Storer; Mrs. Margaret Morse Nice, 
Norman, Oklahoma, by J. R. Pemberton; 
Mr. Reginald C. Robbins, Hot Springs Ave., 
Santa Barbara, by J. Grinnell; Mr. Carroll 
McGettigan, 2644 Filbert St., San Francisco, 
by Dr. Evermann; George H. Kellogg, 2526 
Piedmont Ave., Berkeley. 
A letter asking for two representatives on 
the Affiliations Committee of the Pacific 
Division of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science was read. The 
president, instructed by vote of the Club, 
appointed Mr. Joseph Mailliard and Mrs. A. 
S. Allen to that committee. On motion of 
Dr. Grinnell, seconded by Mr. Mailliard, res- 
olutions forwarded by Dr. Bryant relative 
to the taking cf specimens, were referred to 
a committee appointed by the President 
(later announced to consist of Dr. Grinnell, 
Mr. Storer, and Mr. Swarth), said committee 
to report at the February meeting. Mr. Law 
then outlined plans for proposed changes 
in the constitution providing for more defi- 
nite organization of the Club under a Board 
of Governors. 
Mr. Lastreto presided during the election 
of officers, which resulted as follows: Pres- 
dent, Mr. Curtis Wright; Vice-President, 
Mr. H. S. Swarth; Secretary, Mrs. J. T. 
Allen. ; 
Business completed, Dr. T. T. Waterman 
outlined some of the Indian myths relating 
to the Raven, the Thunder Bird, the Coyote, 
and other birds and animals. After discus- 
sion and exchange of observations the Club 
adjourned.—AMELIA S. ALLEN, Secretary. 
