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THE WILSON BULLETIN— June, 1922 
NOTES=HERE AND THERE 
Conducted by the Secretary 
The Western Section of The American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, holds a summer meeting this year at Salt Lake City June 
22-24. The program is replete with features of interest to students of 
nature and it is hoped that our members in that section will join forces 
with the Inter-Mountain Chapter of The Cooper Ornithological Club to 
see that ornithology is well represented. Mrs. A. 0. Treganza of Sait 
Lake City, is Chapter Secretary of The Cooper Club. 
Professor Thomas L. Hankinson of Michigan State Normal College, 
Ypsilanti, announces that the summer school at that institution will in- 
clude a course on “ The Birds of Michigan,” June 20 to August 4. Many 
other colleges now include such courses in their summer schools. 
The Indiana Audubon Society held its twenty-fourth annual meeting 
May 12 and 13 at Indianapolis, in cooperation with The Nature Study Club 
of Indiana. A fine program had been arranged, which included motion 
pictures of bird-life and several interesting field types. Mr. Frank C. 
Evans of Crawfordsville, is Secretary. 
Professor Dayton Stoner of the Department of Zoology, University 
of Iowa, is one of a party of six from that university which sailed 
from Vancouver, B. C., on May 14 for the Fiji Islands and New Zealand. 
A zoological reconnaissance of Viti Levu, Fiji Islands and of North 
Island, New Zealand, will occupy the time of the members of the party 
during the entire summer. Professor and Mrs. Stoner will devote their 
efCorts mainly to the birds and insects. 
There has been considerable activity in the past few years in the 
sale of second-hand books on ornithology and other branches of natural 
history. The writer receives catalogs and lists quite frequently from no 
less than half a dozen dealers who specialize in literature along these 
lines and will be glad to furnish the addresses to any members who may 
be interested. 
Hawk and Owl Clubs are in vogue in several of our states, sponsored, 
we are told, by several of the ammunition companies. In the state of 
Virginia the detrimental results are being felt in the heavy damage to 
fruit trees occasioned by gnawing of the roots by a largely increased 
rodent population. The Biological Survey is authority for the statement 
that a million dollars would not cover the loss there during the past few 
years and that in the vicinity of Winchester alone at least $250,000 worth 
of apple trees have been killed. Wilson Club members should be pre- 
pared to combat the organization or perpetuation of such clubs in their 
respective states. 
Dr. Lynds Jones, our Editor, will take his usual transcontinental 
ecology trip this year, beginning June 23, and ending August 4 at New- 
port Beach on the Pacific Coast. Dr. Jones knows well the trail ere this 
and we can only wish him even greater success than in former years. 
