162 THE CONDOR 
build up its museum. Miss Scripps desires 
the educational side of museum work em- 
phasized. The Board of Directors has ac- 
cordingly appointed Carroll DeWilton Scott 
Curator of Education. Mr. Scott proposes 
to give a series of talks on natural history 
subjects in the schools of the city and 
county. The Museum will build a number 
of small cases containing birds, minerals, 
plants, etc., to loan to schools, the cases to 
be moved from school to school monthly— 
a sort of circulating museum—as part of 
the educational scheme. The research side 
of the museum work will be carried on also, 
and Mr. Frank Stephens will be identified 
with this branch. His plan is first of all to 
make a full study of the birds and other 
vertebrates of San Diego County, and he is 
already (June 29, 1920) embarking upon the 
necessary field work. 
Field work is being carried on by the 
California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 
this year as follows: Miss Annie M. Alex- 
ander and Miss Louise Kellogg, assisted by 
Mr. Halsted G. White, are searching eastern 
Oregon for both living and extinct verte- 
brates. Mr. Joseph Grinnell spent the month 
of April in the Death Valley region and Mr. 
Richard Hunt explored portions of the Mo- 
have Desert; both were in company of the 
zoologist, Dr. Francis B. Sumner, of the 
Scripps Institution, San Diego. 
Word comes of the death of William 
Dutcher at Chevy Chase, Maryland, on July 
2. Mr. Dutcher had been a Fellow of the 
American Ornithologists’ Union for 34 years, 
and for the past several years had been 
President of the National Association of Au- 
dubon Societies. 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, of the United 
States Biological Survey, left New York on 
May 29 to spend about one year in southern 
South America. He will make a special 
study of the local conditions under which 
certain North American species of birds 
(mainly shore birds) winter there. The re- 
sults of his work will bear importantly upon 
the Migratory-bird Treaty Act, administra- 
tion of which is vested in the Biological 
Survey. 
The Canadian government has been issu- 
ing lately a series of small leaflets giving 
in popular style information regarding birds. 
Copies of these papers will be sent upon re- 
quest, by applying to the Commissioner of 
Dominion Parks, Department of the _ Inte- 
rior, Ottawa. The subject matter’ is mainly 
relative to species affected by the Migratory 
Birds Convention Act, apparently as part 
of a plan for the more general diffusion of 
knowledge in regard to such birds. . Some 
of the papers are in English, some in 
French; evidently the naturalists respon- 
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sible are in earnest in their endeavors to 
bring home to all the general information 
that is so important in building up a popular 
sentiment of approval, without which it is 
difficult to enforce any regulation. Some 
recent titles are: The Brant of the Atlantic 
Coast, by R. M. Anderson; Protection of 
Bird Neighbors, by Hoyes Lloyd; The Birds 
of a Manitoba Garden, by Norman Criddle. 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
NORTHERN DIVISION 
Marcu.—A regular meeting of the North- 
ern Division of the Cooper Ornithological 
Club was held at the Museum of Vertebrate 
Zoology, March 18, 1920, at 8 Pp. M. Presi- 
dent Wright was in the chair and the fol- 
lowing members were present: Mesdames 
Abernathy, Allen, Anderson, Bamford, 
Bridges, Griffin, Law, Nielson, Roe, Schles- 
inger, Thomson, Wythe; Messrs. Austin, 
Bell, Bryant, Cooper, Dixon, Evermann, Grin- 
nell, Hunt, Law, McLean, Palmer, Storer, 
Swarth, and Wright; visitors: Mesdames 
Evermann, McLean, G. T. Roe, Swarth, Tay- 
lor; Messrs. Abernathy and Schlesinger. Feb- 
ruary minutes for the two divisions were read 
and.the northern ones approved. Miss Gen- 
evieve Burk and Miss Lora Gertrude Rush 
were elected to membership, and names pass- 
ed upon by the Southern Division in January 
and February were approved. Two new 
names were presented: Mr. T. F. M. William- 
son of 525 Howard Place, Pasadena, by S. 
Herbert Jenks; and Dwight R. Disney, Ru- 
pert, Idaho, by H. W. Carriger. 
Mr. R. H. Palmer of Palo Alto gave a talk 
on “Habits of Some of our Common Birds’, 
after which seasonal observations were re- 
ported by members present. Mr. Swarth 
suggested that since certain members of the 
club are receiving ornithological literature 
which does not reach all, short reports of 
such literature be added to the monthly pro- 
gram. A motion embodying this suggestion 
was made by Dr. Bryant, seconded by Mr. 
Storer, and unanimously adopted by vote of 
the club. Adjourned.—AMELIA S. ALLEN, 
Secretary. 
Aprit.—The Northern Division of the 
Cooper Ornithological Club met at the Mu- 
seum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of 
California, April 15, at 8 rp. mM. President 
Wright presided and those in attendance 
were Mesdames Allen, Bridges, Grinnell, 
Head, Kelly, Law, Mead, Schlesinger, Thom- 
son, and Wythe; Messrs. Austin, Bell, Carri- 
ger, Cooper, Lastreto, Law, Swarth, White, 
