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THE WILSON BULLETIN— December, 1922 
BIRD BANDING DEPARTMENT 
Under the Direction of Wm. I. Lyon, Waukegan, III. 
Following is a copy of the minutes of the first activities of the 
Inland Bird Banding Association. 
October 23, 1922. 
During the past year I have been corresponding with the Biological 
Survey in regard to forming a Bird Banding Association in the Mississippi 
Valley or the Central part of the United States and Canada. 
In anticipation of forming such an organization I have written over 
100 letters, and have induced at least twenty-five persons to take up 
bird banding. 
As time advanced the logical place to form such Association seemed 
to be the A. O. U. convention, so I interested Mr. P. B. Coffin, President 
of the Chicago Ornithological Society to name a committee to promote 
a dinner for that purpose. 
I had letters printed and mailed to about 75 persons who would be 
interested. I received answers and enough verbal acceptances from the 
announcement at the A. O. U. meeting so that when dinner time came, 
52 were assembled at our first dinner, held at the City Club of Chicago, 
who signed as follows: — 
S. Prentiss Baldwin, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Leon J. Cole, Madison, Wis. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. I. Lyon, Waukegan, Illinois. 
Herbert L. Stoddard, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Mrs. Cosie Clark Miller, Racine, Wis. 
Dr. Frederick C. Test, Chicago, 111. 
P. B. Coffin, Chicago, 111. 
Henry B. Ward, Urbana, 111. 
Arthur D. Moore, South Haven, Mich. 
Mrs. Ethel M. Towns, Milwaukee, Wis. 
F. W. Rapp, Vicksburg, Mich. 
Lucy V. Baxter Coffin, Chicago, 111. 
Harry C. Oberholser, Washington, D. C. 
Frederick C. Lincoln, Washington, D. C. 
Walter B. Barrows, East Lansing, Mich. 
Amos W. Butler, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Myron H. Swenk, Lincoln, Neb. 
A. F. Ganier, Nashville, Tenn. 
T. C. Stephens, Sioux City, Iowa. 
T. L. Hankinson, Ypsilanti, Mich. 
E. H. Forbush, Boston, Mass. 
Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. 
Althea R. Sherman, National, via McGregor, la. 
Dr. W. H. Bergtold, Denver, Colo. 
Theodore G. Ahrens, Ph.D., Baltimore, Ohio. 
Dr. Wm. C. Herman, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
