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I beg the Cooper Club to believe that in sug- 
gesting this step I am moved solely by a 
consideration of its welfare. The Cooper 
Club has other obligations of immediate mo- 
ment. I am unwilling that “The Birds of 
California” should be an endlessly continu- 
ing cause, or that its fortunes should embar- 
rass the forward-looking: plans of the Cooper 
Club, whose patience, generous as it is, has 
been sadly taxed already. It would be gross- 
ly unfair of me to hold such generosity to 
further account. 
Whether or not it will be your good pleas- 
ure to allow the ultimate use of the Club 
name upon the title page of “The Birds of 
California’, where it will be very welcome, 
is a matter for you to decide. But for the 
present and with the utmost concern for 
what we conceive to be your real interests, 
which are alike dear to us, we will discon- 
tinue the use of the Cooper Club name in our 
advertisements and subscription sheets; and 
we will refer to our deep indebtedness to its 
officers and members in the past tense. 
In conclusion, allow me to express my very 
deep sense of personal obligation to all who 
have helped and to those who will continue 
to help toward the publishing of ‘‘The Birds 
cf California’. There is not, I am assured, 
any ill-feeling on the part of any of us. Any 
little incompatibilities of temperament which 
may have appeared in a too-closely wedded 
state will be happily resolved by a larger 
measure of freedom. At least, so far as I 
am aware, only genuine goodwill has been 
manifest on either side. It is only with the 
hcepe of entering an even closer personal 
fellowship of cooperation with the leading 
ornithologists of the West that I would con- 
sent to abrogate a formal relationship 
fraught with at least the possibility of mu- 
tual embarrassment. 
Respectfully yours, 
W. LEON DAWSON. 
Santa Barbara, August 14, 1920. 
Mr. Swarth then submitted this report: 
At the April, 1920, meeting of the North- 
ern Division of the Cooper Ornithological 
Club, a committee was appointed, on motion 
of Mr. Lastreto, “to report at the next meet- 
ing as to what support the Club could offer 
toward encouraging the completion of ‘The 
Birds of California’”. Messrs. Law, Swarth 
and Evermann were appointed by the chair. 
The committee gave careful attention to the 
matter, but has been unable to submit re- 
commendations before this time. 
Most careful consideration has revealed no 
way in which the Club, as such, can assist 
in an early completion of “The Birds of Cali- 
fornia’. The committee is familiar with the 
letter that has been presented by Mr. Daw- 
son; it has been supplied with a copy of that 
letter. Mr. Dawson’s proposal, just submit- 
ted, the outgrowth of earlier conferences, ap- 
pears to meet squarely the present situation. 
It is unfortunate that Dr. Evermann is ab- 
sent and so could not join in this report, but 
Mr. Law and Mr. Swarth, acting for the 
committee, recommend that the Club accept 
Mr. Dawson’s proposal that any official rela- 
tionship between the Cooper Ornithological 
Club and the Birds of California Publishing 
Company be herewith dissolved. The com- 
mittee also recommends that Mr. Dawson’s 
letter be entered verbatim in the minutes of 
this meeting. 
- THE CONDOR‘. 
Vol. XXII 
On motion of Mr. Mailliard, seconded by 
Mr. Carriger, the recommendation was 
adopted. 
Mr. Lastreto reported work done by the 
joint committee of the Audubon Association 
and the Cooper Club dealing respectively 
with the discharge of oil from oil steamers 
and with the destruction of Bald Eagles in 
Alaska. 
Mr. Storer reported on attempts to com- 
mercialize the waters of the Yellowstone 
Park and other National Parks and National 
Forests, recommending that the Club mem- 
orialize the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Federal Power Commission to oppose 
the establishment of power stations in the 
National Parks. The motion to this effect, 
duly seconded, was carried. 
On motion of Mr. Carriger it was voted 
to hold meetings of the Northern Division 
hereafter on the fourth Thursday of each 
month. 
Business completed, Mr. Swarth gave a 
report upon his study of the distribution of 
oirds in the Stikine River region. Adjourned, 
—AMELIA S. ALLEN, Secretary. 
SOUTHERN DIVISION 
May 27, 1920.—Regular monthly meeting 
of the Southern Division of the Cooper Or- 
nithological Club was held at the Museum 
of History, Science and Art, at 8:00 P. mM. 
President Miller held the chair, with others 
present as follows: Messrs. Appleton, Bishop, 
Hanaford, Law, Little, Morcom, Nicholson, 
Pierce, Rich, Robertson, Ross, Taylor, and 
Wyman, and Mrs. Law; Mrs. Bishop was a 
visitor. 
Minutes of the April meeting were read 
and approved. Persons whose names were 
proposed at the previous meeting were de- 
clared elected, on motion by Dr. Rich, sec- 
onded by Mr. Robertson. New applications 
were: Mrs. Anne B. Terry, 935 South Union 
Ave., and Mrs. Bertha Davis Martin, 1644 
Maltman Ave., Los Angeles, both proposed 
by W. Lee Chambers. The Northern Divi- 
sion submitted the names of Mrs. Mervyn 
Neugass, Berkeley, Dwight R. Disney, Ru- 
pert, Idaho, and T. F. M. Williamson, Pasa- 
dena. 
Communications from several congress- 
men were read, acknowledging receipt of 
the Club’s protest against exploitation of a 
portion of Yellowstone National Park. 
The session ended with the usual hour of 
informal discussion of things ornithological 
