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the said inonnted birds, the species and nnni- 
ber of specimens of each. 
Messrs. Grinnell, iMailliard, and Ilnnter had 
been appointed a committee to ascertain in 
what manner the Cooper Chrb coxild best co- 
operate with the State Fish and Game Com- 
mission, for the protection of the birds of the 
■State, and iMr. Mailliard read a letter that the 
Committee had addressed to the Chairman of 
the Assembly Committee on Fish and Game, 
expressing the confidence of the Club in the 
policy of the Fish and Game Commission, and 
urging that the present laws be upheld. 
Mr. W. P. Taylor, as chairman of the Com- 
mittee on securing the meeting of the Amer- 
ican Ornithologists Ihiion in vSan Francisco in 
191.5, made the following recommendation: 
Whereas the piirpose for which this committee 
was appointed would at this stage best be sub- 
serveil by co-operation with the Pacific Asso- 
ciation of -Scientific -Societies, it is therefore 
recommended that the first annual meeting of 
the Cooper Ornithological Club as a whole be 
held at the University of California, Berkeley, 
on March ,11 and April 1, 1911, in conjunction 
with the annual meeting of the Pacific Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Taylor’s report was accepted, 
and it was moved and seconded and dul}' car- 
ried, that the committee be instructed to further 
co-operate with the Pacific Asssociation, and 
to arrange for a joint meeting of the societies, 
as recommended. 
A discussion arose as to the proper disposal 
of the manuscript of Belding’s “Water Birds of 
California", now in possession of the Club, and 
it was finally decided to place it on deposit in 
the Bancroft Library, if the rules of that in- 
stitution so permitted. 
Mr. Coggins read an entertaining and inter- 
esting communication he had recently re- 
ceived from ?tlr. Witmer Stone, of Philadel- 
phia. Adjourned. — H. -S. -Sw.\rth, Secretary. 
M.\rch. — The INIarch meeting of the Cooper 
Club was held on INIarch .51 and April .1, in 
conjunction with the first annual meeting of 
the Pacific Association of Scientific Societies. 
The business meeting was held on the evening 
of IMarch ,51, at the Mint Restaurant, -San 
b'rancisco, with President Mailliard in the 
chair and the following members present: 
John Mailliard, Ernest Mailliard, J. Grinnell, 
W. P. Taylor, O. Heinemann, II. Coggins, W. 
Iv. Fisher, C. Littlejohn and H. W. Carriger; 
and with E. A. Mcllhenny as a visitor. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were 
read, and approved as read, followed by read- 
ing of the minutes of the Southern Division. 
The secretary was instructed to cast a ballot 
electing to membership in the Club the follow- 
ing, whose names were proposed at the last 
meeting: F. M. Lane, Fresno, Cal.; Nita .V. 
Blayney, Fresno, Cal.; Reginald C. Barker, 
Blackwater, Ariz. ; Owen Durfee, Fall River, 
Mass.; Robert Barbour, Montclair, N. J.; H. 
Nehrling, Gotha, Florida. 
The following proposals for membership 
were read, to be acted upon at the next meet- 
ing: PUizabeth B. Davenport, Brattleboro, Vt. ; 
J. F. Frazier, Audubon, Iowa; Roy Norris, 
Richmond, Indiana; S. S. Dickey, Waynes- 
burg, Pennsylvania; W. B. IMershon, -Saginaw, 
Alich.; Frank O. Pilsbury, Walpole, Mass.; J 
11. Trumbull, Plain ville. Conn.; A. I). DxiBois, 
Ithaca, N. V.; Rowena A. Clarke, -St. Louis, 
Mo.; F. H. Kennard, Newton Center, IMass. ; 
Juliette A. Owen, St. Joseph, Mo.; P. B. 
Philipp, New York; Eugene E. Caduc, Boston, 
Mass. ; Joseph Parker Norris, Philadelphia, Pa,; 
W. J. Hoxie, Savannah, Ga. ; J. M. Edson, 
Bellingham, Wash.; W. T. Shaw, Pullman, 
Wash,; H. J. Rust, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; J. 
F. Stephens, Lincoln, Neb.; F. 11. B. Jordan, 
Lowell, Wash.; F. Kermode, Victoria, B. C. ; 
all presented by A. B. Howell; Miss Louise 
Kellogg, Oakland, Cal., proposed by J. Grin- 
nell; and Carl Mueller, IMarysville, Cal., pro- 
posed by W. Lee Chambers. 
Mr. Grinnell reported that the authorities of 
the Bancroft Library had expressed their wil- 
lingness to have the manuscript of Belding’s 
“Water Birds of California” (the property of 
the Club) deposited in the librar}-, and it was 
decided to do so. 
Mr. W. P. Taylor reported on the actions 
and progress of the Pacific Association of 
-Scientific Societies. A report was received 
from ]\Ir. Roswell Wheeler on the condition of 
certain mounted birds, the property of the 
Club, now in an Oakland school. 
Certain changes in the new Club Constitu- 
tion, suggested by the Soiithern Division, were 
read and discussed, and the matter was re- 
ferred to the committee that originally had the 
matter in charge. Letters were read from Dr. 
R. W. Shufeldt, Mr. G. S. Guion, and Mr. 
Witmer Stone; and Mr. (Mcllhenny and Mr. 
Littlejohn entertained the Club with accounts 
of their Alaska experiences. 
On the afternoon of April 1 the Club met in 
California Hall, University of California to 
listen to an illustrated lecture by Dr. W. K. 
Fisher on the bird colonies of Laysan Island. 
He was followed by Mr. 11. L. Coggins who 
spoke on “An Apology for Popular Ornithol- 
ogy”. Owing to the absence of Mr. Lo3'e 
Holmes (Miller, his paper on fossil birds was 
read by title. After these lectures, which were 
open to the public, the Club members met in- 
formally in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoologj'. 
In the evening most of the members attended 
the general meeting of the Pacific Association 
of Scientific -Societies. — 11. W. Carriger, 
Secretary, pro tent. 
