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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XVII 
November. — The regular meeting of the 
Northern Division was held at the Califor- 
nia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berke- 
ley, November 19, 1914, at 8 p. m. In the 
absence of President Bryant, Mr. H. W. Car- 
riger was elected chairman of the evening. 
The following members were present: Mrs. 
Allen, Miss Culver, Messrs. Carriger, Reyn- 
olds, Smyth and Storer. Mesdames Reyn- 
olds and Schlisinger and one other visitor 
were present. 
The minutes of the Northern Division Oc- 
tober meeting were read and approved, and 
the Southern Division October minutes were 
read. The following persons were elected 
to membership: Mrs. Jane J. Schlisinger, 
Dr. Otto Westerfeld and the persons pro- 
posed at the Southern Division September 
meeting. The following were proposed for 
membership: D. Moore Lindsay, 808 Boston 
Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah; R. Bruce Over- 
ington, Laurel, Maryland; F. A. Wrathall, 
347 Wilson Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah; 
Thomas Boyer, Continental National Bank, 
Salt Lake City, Utah; Claude T. Barnes, 359 
10th Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah; J. W. Sug- 
den, 55 S. 8th Street, West, Salt Lake City, 
Utah; Mrs. A. O. Treganza, 614 East 6tli 
St., South, Salt Lake City, Utah; and R. H. 
Palmer, Downey, Idaho, all proposed by A. 
O. Treganza; Cassie A. Davidson, 1523 
Spring Street, Berkeley; Katherine E. Dol- 
bear, 2015 13th Ave., Oakland; and Mrs. C. 
M. Haring, care of College of Agriculture, 
University of California, Berkeley, all by 
Tracy I. Storer; also the members proposed 
at the Southern Division October meeting, 
nine in all. 
The following written communication was 
received. To the Cooper Ornithological 
Club. Under the provisions of Section Two 
(2), article two (2) and subsequent definii- 
tions of the Constitution, we, the under- 
signed members or applicants for member- 
ship in the Cooper Club, make application 
for an Inter-mountain Chapter of said Club 
at Salt Lake City, Utah. Signed: D. 
Moore Lindsay, R. Bruce Overington, F. A. 
Wrathall, Thomas Boyer, Claude T. Barnes, 
J. W. Sugden, J. H. Paul, Mrs. A. O. Tre- 
ganza, R. H. Palmer, James L. A. Mullen, A. 
O. Treganza. This application was read 
and laid over for voting upon at the next 
meeting. The context of the application 
had already been sent to the Southern Di- 
vision for consideration at their November 
meeting. 
A communication was received from Mr. 
Harry Harris of Kansas City, Missouri, do- 
nating the field notebook kept by Mr. 
George B. Sennett on his first two trips 
to Texas in 1877 and 1878, and a manuscript 
lecture by Mr. Sennett on the Birds of Par- 
adise. It was moved, seconded and carried 
that these be deposited in the Bancroft 
Library of the University of California sub- 
ject to the same conditions as Belding’s 
manuscript of the water birds of California 
which is there deposited. 
Tracy I. Storer then spoke on “Some re- 
sults of a Summer Session Course in Or- 
nithology”, pointing out some of the defi- 
ciencies in the textbooks and other litera- 
ture available for classroom instruction in 
ornithology and suggesting how some of the 
deficiencies could be supplied. Adjourned.* 
— Tracy I. Storer, Secretary. 
December. — The regular monthly meeting 
of the Northern Division was held at the 
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, 
California, Thursday evening, December 17, 
1914, at 8 p. m. President Bryant was in the 
chair with the following members present: 
Mesdames Allen and Grinnell, Miss Crane, 
Messrs. Carriger, Grinnell and Storer. 
The minutes of the Northern Division 
November meeting were read and approved 
and those of the Southern Division Novem- 
ber meeting read. The following persons 
were elected to membership: D. Moore 
Lindsay, R. Bruce Overington, F. A. 
Wrathall, Thos. Boyer, Claude T. Barnes, 
J. W. Snyder, Mrs. A. O. Treganza, R. H. 
Palmer, Cassie A. Davidson, Katherine E. 
Doibear, Mrs. C. M. Haring, and the persons 
proposed at the Southern Division’s October 
meeting. The following applications for 
membership were received: J. N. Kendall, 
253 Magnolia Ave., Long Beach, proposed 
by H. C. Bryant, and the seven persons 
proposed at the Southern Division Novem- 
ber meeting. The application for an Inter- 
mountain Chapter at Salt Lake City, Utah, 
was granted by unanimous vote. 
A letter was read from Mr. A. B. Howell 
concerning the preparation of an exchange 
list and also concerning bird banding in the 
west. The President was directed to ap- 
point a committee of one to consider the 
matter of bird banding for the membership 
of the Northern Division. Nominations for 
Northern Division officers for 1915 were 
made as follows: President, Joseph Mail- 
liard; Vice-President, Walter K. Fisher; 
Secretary, Tracy I. Storer. 
Mrs. A. S. Allen presented the paper of 
the evening, entitled “Birds of a Berkeley 
Hillside”. The paper embodied observa- 
tions made by Mrs. Allen at her home on 
Mosswood Road where she has set out food 
and also provided water for the birds to 
drink and bathe in. A discussion of the 
paper followed. Adjourned. — Tracy I. 
Storer, Secretary. 
•NOTE. — The following have been ap- 
pointed a committee of arrangements for the 
joint A. O. U.-C. O. C. meeting in San Fran- 
cisco in 1915: Joseph Mailliard, Barton W. 
Evermann, Joseph Grinnell, John W. Mail- 
liard. 
