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The A. O. U. then passed resolutions thanking the Cooper Club, the Acad- 
emy of Sciences and the Committee on Arrangements, after which the meeting ad- 
journed. In a special meeting the Cooper Club passed resolutions of thanks to the 
Academ}' and Mr. Loomis, for the generous entertainment extended to members of 
the Club. 
After luncheon, on the invitation of President Jordan, the meeting visited 
Stanford University in a body. 
The following members of the A. O. U. from the east were in attendance; J. 
A. Allen, F. E. L. Beal, Louis B Bishop, H. C. Bumpus, F". M. Chapman, J. L. 
Childs, Mrs. E. B. Davenport, J. Dwight, Jr., J. H. Fleming, Louis A. Fuertes, C. 
Hart Merriam, T. S. Palmer, Otto Widmann. Of the Cooper Club there were 
thirty-three members present. 
DR. EDGAR A- MEARNS 
W E take pleasure in resuming our series of portraits with that of Dr. Edgar 
A. Mearns, U. S. A. Dr. Mearns is well known to westerners thru his 
connection with the Mexican Boundary Survey, and by his numerous 
articles on western ornithology and mammalogy. The Doctor began his bird stu- 
dies in the east, but has worked pretty much over the far west, in line of duty, 
particularly in the arid regions of the .southwest, adjacent to our National 
Boundary. Dr. Mearns’ first paper was on The Birds of the Hudson Highlands, 
published in the Bulletin of the Essex Institute (1878-79). The greater number of 
his later articles have appeared in The Auk and in the Proceedings of the U. S. 
Ni^tional Museum. 
