Nov., 1919 
ington during the season just passed under 
the auspices of the Biological Survey, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. Cooperating 
with the Survey in the field work at differ- 
ent times were the following: Professor Wil- 
liam T, Shaw, State College of Washington, 
Pullman; Professor H. S. Brode, Whitman 
College, Walla Walla; Professor J. W. Hun- 
gate, State Normal School, Cheney; Profes- 
sor J. B. Flett, National Park Service, Long- 
mire; Mr. William L. Finley and Mrs. Fin- 
ley, Portland, Oregon; and Stanton Warbur- 
ton, Jr., Tacoma. The Biological Survey was 
represented for a part of the time by Mr. 
Stanley G. Jewett, Predatory Animal Inspec- 
tor, Pendleton, Oregon; and throughout the 
season by Mr. George G. Cantwell, Field As- 
sistant, Puyallup, Washington, and Dr. Wal- 
ter P. Taylor, Assistant Biologist, Washing- 
ton, D. C., the latter in charge of the work. 
Investigations were made in the Blue Moun- 
tains area of extreme southeastern Washing- 
ton, in which occurs an unusual mixture of 
Rocky Mountain and Cascade Mountain 
types; and in Mt. Rainier National Park, in 
connection with which the circuit of Mt. 
Rainier was made for the first time, so far 
as known, by any vertebrate zoological ex- 
pedition. Mr. Cantwell is continuing the 
survey through the fall and winter, being 
engaged at present in working the bunch- 
grass and sage-brush country of eastern 
Washington. 
Mr. Harry Harris, of Kansas City, Missou- 
ri, has recently brought to our attention the 
very interesting details of the trial of the 
case which tested the validity of the Federal 
Migratory Bird Treaty Act in the United 
States Court at that point. It will be re- 
membered that Missouri has been the center 
of opposition to the provisions of this Act 
from the start, both on the part of one of 
the United States senators at the time the 
bill was before the Senate and subsequently 
when it came to enforcing the law. It isa 
satisfaction to all who have been concerned 
in securing this important achievement in 
conservation to know that even though the 
case above referred to was tried in the “en- 
emy’s country” the law was decided to be 
altogether constitutional, and was. not 
“smashed”, as many local sportsmen wished, 
so they could resume spring shooting of 
ducks. 
A move is on foot, the success of which is 
already guaranteed, to found a memorial in 
honor of the late Frederick Du Cane God- 
man, known so favorably to American or- 
nithologists for his work in collaboration 
with Osbert Salvin on neotropical birds. The 
memorial in view will take two forms, a 
bronze tablet, and a foundation to be known 
as “The Godman Exploration Fund’, and it 
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will be administered in the interests of the 
British Natural History Museum, at South 
Kensington, England. This institution, 
through Mr. W. L. Sclater, Honorary Secre- 
tary of the Godman Memorial Committee (10, 
Sloane Court, London, S. W. 1), invites con- 
tributions of money for this purpose, and 
gifts from persons interested should be ad- 
dressed as above. We heartily endorse the 
above undertaking, in that it will perpetuate 
the name of one who in his lifetime contrib- 
uted, himself, generously toward the devel- 
opment of New World ornithology. 
During the years 1914-16 extensive field 
work was carried on under the auspices of 
the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoolo- 
gy in a section across the Sierra Nevada 
from Snelling to Mono Lake, embracing the 
Yosemite Valley and adjacent scenic spots 
much frequented by summer visitors to the 
region. During this period specimens, pho- 
tographs and notes were gathered with the 
purpose of drawing up a general report on 
the vertebrate animal life of the region. Pre- 
paration of this report was suspended dur- 
ing the war; but the work has now been re- 
sumed. A short supplementary field trip 
was made during the early summer of the 
present year by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy 
I, Storer, of the Museum staff. This trip had 
as its objective the gathering of additional 
information, especially on the nesting times 
and nesting habits of certain of the birds not 
previously studied to advantage. Camps 
were established near Snelling and Coulter- 
ville in the foothills, and in the Yosemite 
Valley, while shorter stops were made at 
three stations near the rim of the Valley. 
The results were quite satisfactory. All of 
the facts gathered on this and the earlier 
field trips are being incorporated into a hand 
manual which will serve as a guide to the 
identification of the mammals, birds, rep- 
tiles and amphibians of the region, the 
places in which the species are to be found, 
their habits, times and places of breeding, 
their food, and their general relations in the 
scheme of nature as exhibited in the Yose- 
mite region. 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
JUNE.—A meeting of the Cooper Ornitho- 
logical Club, in affiliation with the Western 
Society of Naturalists, was held at Pasadena 
on June 19 and 20, 1919, at the annual meet- 
ing of the Pacific Division, American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science. 
Abstracts of papers presented are published 
in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of 
America, July, 1919. Numerous members of 
both Divisions were in attendance. As this 
was in the nature of a special meeting, no 
