The Annual Meeting 
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THE ANNUAL MEETING 
The eighth annual meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Club was 
held at Chicago, 111., December 26th and 27th, 1921. The Lecture Hail 
of the new Field Museum of Natural History had been placed at the 
disposal of The Club by the directors, through the courtesy of Dr. Wil- 
fred H. Osgood, the Curator of Zoology. 
The first session was called to order by the President, Dr. R. M. 
Strong, and business was announced for the morning's program. At the 
request of Secretary Ganier, Dr. G. Eifrig was appointed and kindly con- 
sented to act as recording secretary. The first matter was to take from 
the table the motion to increase the annual dues. The Secretary pre- 
sented a tabulation of the answers received from the questionnaire mailed 
to all members. Of the 136 replies received, 93 per cent voted to in- 
crease the dues to $2.00 and $3.00 for Associates and Actives respectively. 
Two of the votes favored retaining the present dues and the balance ad- 
vocated raising the fee in various amounts. Dr. Jones, Editor of The 
Bulletin, brought out the fact that last year’s publication was only made 
possible by the Special Fund raised by the Ways and Means Committee. 
He stated that a larger revenue was imperative to meet existing conditions 
and that it should be enough to make possible an increase to 64 pages 
per number. Other speakers followed advocating the procedure and a 
letter was read from Dr. Myron H. Swenk of the Nebraska Ornitholo- 
gists’ Union pledging the support of that organization and stating that 
the matter of the proposed increase in dues would not likely interfere 
with their present affiliation. Dr. Jones stated, that by actively increas- 
ing the membership and with the aid of a small surplus of last year’s 
Fund he felt that a 50 cent increase per member would suffice, and made 
motion to that effect. Seconded by Dr. Stephens. Mr. Coffin, stating 
that he felt too small a margin would be afforded, offered an amend- 
ment making the dues $3.00 and $1.50. After further discussion the 
amendment was withdrawn and the original motion, providing for dues 
of $2.50 for Active and $1.50 for Associate, was passed. The Council was 
instructed by the Chair to take up with the Nebraska Ornithologists’ 
Union the revisions made necessary in the existing agreement by the 
change in dues. The Secretary spoke of the advisability of creating 
paid up Life Memberships and making provisions for taking care of such 
funds for investment. A motion in favor of the consummation of the 
plan passed and a committee, composed of Messrs. Stephens, Swenk, 
Whitney and Jones was instructed to make arrangements and to can- 
