Jan., 1920 
Otto Emerson, and Mrs. Mary Ames Van 
Dyke were elected to membership. July and 
August elections in the Southern Division 
also were ratified. Mrs. Kelley proposed 
the name of Mrs. E. C. Pitcher, Hayward, 
and Miss Davidson proposed Miss Elizabeth 
Hendren, Occidental, California. 
Mr. Kibbe, the sole surviving member of 
the committee on the licensing of cats, then 
reported the results of the investigations of 
this committee and recommended that ac- 
tion be confined to an attempt to amend 
the city ordinances as they apply to the 
licensing and impounding of dogs, by insert- 
ing the word “cat” or ‘cats’. A motion 
made by Dr. Grinnell and seconded by Dr. 
Bryant provided that the report and recom- 
mendation of the committee be adopted by 
the Club, and that the committee be given 
broad powers to proceed in its efforts to 
get the amendment adopted by the City 
Council. The motion was carried. A motion 
by Mr. Lastreto, seconded by Mr. Carriger, 
that the committee be discharged with 
thanks, that a new committee be appointed, 
including Mr. Kibbe as one of its members, 
to carry out the recommendations of the 
former committee, was lost. 
Dr. Bryant then entertained the Club with 
an account of how six adults and two ba- 
bies went, with the help of four’ pack- 
horses, ‘“‘A-Birding Down the Backbone of 
the Sierra’, from the region of Lake Tahoe 
to Yosemite Valley. Photographs and speci- 
mens helped to make more vivid the won- 
derful experience such a trip affords to the 
enthusiastic ornithologist and mountaineer. 
—AMELIA S. ALLEN, Secretary. 
Octoszr.—The regular meeting of the 
Northern Division was held at the Museum 
of Vertebrate Zoology the evening of Octo- 
ber 16, 1919. As both the President and the 
Vice-President were absent, Dr. Grinnell was 
called upon to preside. The following mem- 
bers were present: Mesdames Allen, Bam- 
ford, Bridges, Davidson, Kibbe, Pringle, and 
Wythe; Messrs. Bryant, Carriger, Dixon, 
Grinnell, Hunt, Kibbe, Little, Mailliard, Mor- 
ley, Storer, and Swarth. Visitors were Miss 
Mackay, Mrs. Mead, Miss and Mrs. Swarth. 
The minutes of the September meeting 
of the Northern Division were read and ap- 
proved. The September minutes of the 
Southern Division were read by title only. 
Miss Elizabeth Hendren, and Mrs. E. C. 
Pitcher, were elected members of the Club. 
Elections of September 28 of the Southern 
Division, namely, of Richard Harlow, Joseph 
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_T. Greenleaf, Jr., James Haynes Hill, Loyal 
Edgar Smith, A. C. Johnson, and Mary Che- 
ney, were ratified. New names proposed 
were as follows: Miss Isabel Ames, San 
Francisco, by Dr. H. C, Bryant; Mrs. Row- 
land B. Dodge, Berkeley, by Dr. William F. 
Badé; Mr. Lyle R. Fletcher, Norton, Kansas, 
by Mr. H. W. Carriger; Francis Harper, Bi- 
ological Survey, Washington, D. C., by Mr. 
Alexander Wetmore; Mr. H. M. Harrison, 
Cambridge, Maryland, by Mr. H. W. Carri- 
ger; Miss Susan Mackay, Berkeley, by Mrs. 
J. T. Allen; Mrs. Edwin B. Mead, Berkeley, 
by Mrs. J. T. Allen; Mrs. Ernest B. Price, 
Piedmont, by Miss Margaret W. Wythe; and 
Raymond Wheatley Moore, Washington, D. 
C., by Dr. Joseph Grinnell, on behalf of Dr. 
T. S. Palmer and Mrs. Vernon Bailey. 
The paper for the evening was presented 
by Professor S. Griswold Morley on the sub- 
ject “Dogs, Birds and Humanity”, and dealt 
with fundamental problems connected with 
human interpretation of animal behavior. 
The discussion which followed resulted in 
an agreement that more general banding of 
birds might produce evidence sufficient for 
deciding many moot questions such as that 
regarding a permanent marital tie among 
birds. Many seasonal observations were re- 
ported before the Club adjourned.—AMELIA 
S. ALLEN, Secretary. 
SOUTHERN DIVISION 
SEPTEMBER.—Regular monthly meeting of 
the Southern Division was held at 3 P. M., 
September 28, at the home of Dr. L. H. Mil- 
ler, 6066 Hays Ave., Los Angeles. Twenty- 
four members and four visitors were in at- 
tendance. 
Minutes of the August meeting were read 
and approved. On motion by Dr. Rich, sec- 
onded by Dr. Esterly, the persons whose 
names were proposed at the previous meet- 
ing were declared elected. New names were: 
Miss Ruth A. Ledeg, Los Angeles, by Dr. L. 
H. Miller; Richard F. Williams, Upper Mont- 
clair, N. J., by W. Lee Chambers; Chas. F. 
Hedges, Miles City, Mont., by Aretas A. 
Saunders; Mrs. W. L. Brownlee, Los Ange- 
les, by L. E. Wyman; also two from the 
Northern Division. 
The invitation of Mr. W. Leon Dawson to 
hold the October meeting at the Museum of 
Comparative Oology, in Santa Barbara, on 
the 25th of that month, was accepted on 
motion by Dr. Rich, seconded by Dr. Ester- 
ly. Mr. Law, one of the Business Managers 
of the Conpor, who plans to make Berkeley 
