THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIV 
A. O. U. and to come into closer personal sym- 
pathy with them, be it 
“Resolved, that the Cooper Ornithological 
Chib hereby extends a cordial invitation to the 
American Ornithologists’ Union to hold its 
annual meeting for 1915 in San Francisco 
jointly with the Cooper Ornithological Club.’’ 
There being no further business the program 
of the evening was then taken up. Mr. II. C. 
Bryant spoke on “The Relation of Birds- to an 
Insect Outbreak in Northern California”, the 
history of a plague of butterflies in Shasta 
County, and the species of birds found feeding 
on them. Adjourned. — H. S. Swarth, Sec- 
retary. 
November. — The November meeting of the 
Northern Division was held on the 18th at the 
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, with President 
Mailliard in the chair and the following mem- 
bers present: Messrs. Heinemann, Grinnell, 
Carriger, Gifford, Ray, Anderson, Fisher, 
Camp, Coggins, and Swarth. The minutes 
of the October meeting were read, followed 
by the Southern Division minutes for Sep- 
tember. George W. Schussler, and John B. 
Uitsley, Jr., whose names were presented 
last month by H. W. Carriger, were elected 
to membership. The following new names 
were proposed: Charles L. Whitcher and 
Mrs. L. L. Fox, of Los Olivos, California, 
both presented by Vernon Bailey; Miss Sarah 
R. Atsatt, Los Angeles, and Miss Elizabeth 
Heald, Berkeley, presented by H. C. Bryant; F. 
11. Ottmer, Eureka, presented by C. I. Clay; and 
R. L. More, Vernon, Texas, and R. T. Moore, 
Haddonfield, New Jersey, presented by W. Lee 
Chambers. 
A suggestion of Mr. A. B. Howell’s was 
brought to the attention of the meeting — that a 
member be appointed in each town represented 
at the meeting, to secure the subscription to 
The Condor, of their respective public libra- 
ries. In accordance with this suggestion the 
chair made the following appointments: In 
Berkeley, W. P. Taylor, in Alameda, E. W. 
Gifford, in Oakland, R. S. Wheeler, in Palo 
Alto, W. K. Fisher, in San Francisco, H. L. 
Coggins, and in Sierra IMadre, Charles Camp. 
The matter of holding an annual club dinner, 
as heretofore, was decided in the affirmative, 
and the chair appointed Mr. John W. Mailliard 
a committee of one to attend to the necessary 
details. A communication from the secretary 
of the Pacific Association of Scientific vSocieties 
was then placed before the meeting, containing 
the following matters to be acted upon: (1) the 
five dollars yearly diies of the Cooper Club is 
now payable: (2) the Chemical Society has ap- 
plied for admission to the Pacific Association. 
Shall this organization be voted into member- 
ship ? (,3) Shall IMarch 5, 6, 7, be the dates, 
and .Stanford University the place, of the next 
annual meeting of the Association? The first, 
as a recognized obligation of the Club, required 
no formal action, further than that the secre- 
tary notify the treasurer of the fact. The two 
other questions were answered in the affirma- 
tive. 
The nomination of officers for 1912 was next 
taken up, and the following selections were 
made: President, H. L. Coggins; Vice-presi- 
dent, H. W. Carriger; Secretary, H. S. Swarth. 
Mr. J. Mailliard, as chairman of the consti- 
tution committee, reported that the new con- 
stitution had been received by him from the 
Southern Division, that that Division had 
adopted the constitution with certain slight 
changes, that the committee could see no ob- 
jection to the changes that had been made, and 
that the committee recommended the adoption 
of the constitution as it now stood. This was 
accordingly done. 
Mr. Grinnell entertained the meeting with a 
talk on certain questions relative to the geo- 
graphical distribution of animals, demonstrat- 
ing his points with certain recently ascertained 
facts relative to the respective ranges of two of 
the southern California song sparrows, Melos- 
piza m. cooperi M. m. saltonis. Adjourned. 
— H. S. Swarth, Secretary. 
December. — The December meeting of the 
Northern Division was held at the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology, Saturday ev’ening, Decem- 
ber 16. Vice-president Carriger was in the 
chair and the following members present: 
Messrs. Camp, Coggins, Grinnell, Gifford, 
Taylor and Swarth. The minutes of the No- 
vember meeting were read. The following, 
whose names were presented at the previous 
meeting, were elected to membership: Mrs. 
L. L. Fox, Miss Sarah R. Atsatt, Miss Elizabeth 
Heald, C. L. Whitcher, F'. H. Ottmer, R. L. 
More, and R. T. Moore. New names were pre- 
sented as follows: Sherwood Coffin, proposed 
by Joseph Mailliard and Ernest Mailliard; 
L. W. Welch, proposed by L. H. Miller, and 
G. W. Stevens and W. A. Strong, proposed by 
A. B. Howell. A communication from the sec- 
retarj" of the Pacific Association of Scientific 
Societies was read, stating that the Geographi- 
cal Society of the Pacific had applied for mem- 
bership in the Association. The division voted 
“yes” on the application. The election of 
officers for the Northern Division for 1912 then 
took place, with the following results: Presi- 
dent, H. L. Coggins; Vice-president, H. W. 
Carriger; Secretary, H. S. Swarth. 
W. P. Taylor spoke on “The Laws of Temp- 
erature Control, with special reference to the 
birds of the Mt. Whitney Region”, his remarks 
calling forth considerable discussion from his 
auditors. Adjourned. — H. S. Swarth, Sec- 
retary. 
