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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XVII 
Atlin district, eighty-four summer birds and 
thirty-five in the September list. Some spe- 
cies were found new to British Columbia, 
and there are many records of interest as 
regards distribution. The comments under 
each species are condensed, including little 
more than brief statements of the manner 
of occurrence. On pages 17 and 18 of the 
1914 report is a list of errata in the Okana- 
gan paper. These are mostly corrections of 
names used, in most instances closely re- 
lated subspecies having been confused. 
It seems a pity that papers of such value 
and of such general interest should be 
buried in museum reports where they are 
lost to those most interested. They have 
evidently escaped the notice of even so 
thorough and careful a searcher of ornith- 
ological literature as is the reviewer of the 
Auk ! Also but scant justice is done to 
either collection or author, for statements 
must be condensed to the utmost, and many 
interesting phases of the collections passed 
over without comment. The exceedingly 
brief account of the nesting of the Bohemian 
Waxwing in the Atlin district, where four 
sets of eggs were found, is but one instance 
of many, of facts of life history, manner of 
occurrence, etc., that would bear carefully 
detailed treatment. In these same annual 
reports there are included similarly abbre- 
viated lists of mammals, insects, etc., from 
the Atlin and Okanagan districts. 
While the subject matter of these various 
lists is, as far as it goes, evidently authori- 
tative and a welcome addition to our knowl- 
edge of the biota of the regions involved, 
the editorial treatment of the papers can not 
be commended. While care has been taken 
to ascertain the proper names of the species 
listed, punctuation and general typographi- 
cal treatment of these names is not uniform, 
nor do they accord with current usage. Also 
there are many errors of typography 
throughout the several papers- — H. S. 
Swarth. 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
NORTHERN DIVISION 
January. — The regular monthly meeting 
of the Northern Division was held at the 
California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 
Berkeley, January 21, 1915, at 8 p. m. 
President Bryant was in the chair with the 
following members present: Mesdames Al- 
len, Bryant, Grinnell and Schlisinger, the 
Misses Andrews, Atsatt, Conger, Dolbear 
and Wythe, and the Messrs. Bolander, Camp, 
Carriger, Dice, Evermann, Grinnell, Joseph 
Mailliard, McAtee and Storer. Visitors pres- 
ent were: Mr. and Mrs. Newberry, Mrs. Klu- 
ger, Miss Dora Lemon, and Mr. F. Martens. 
The Northern Division December, 1914, 
minutes were read and approved and the 
Southern Division December minutes were 
read. The following were elected to mem- 
bership: J. N. Kendall and the seven per- 
sons proposed by the Southern Division in 
November. The following applications for 
membership were read: J. H. Paul, 1320 
East 2d Street South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 
by A. O. Treganza; Irwin C. Schumacher, 
Yuba City, and G. F. Sutherland, East Hall, 
University of California, Berkeley, both pro- 
posed by A. L. Barrows, and two received 
by the Southern Division in December. The 
resignation of Mr. Charles H. Richardson 
was accepted. 
A written communication from Mr. W. 
Otto Emerson was received asking that the 
Club endorse a movement to have ornithol- 
ogy made a required subject in the gram- 
mar schools. The matter was laid on the 
table. 
Election of officers resulted as follows: 
President, Joseph Mailliard; Vice-president, 
Walter K. Fisher; Secretary, Tracy I. Stor- 
er. For the offices of Editor of the Condor 
and Business Managers the present incum- 
bents were re-elected, namely, Joseph Grin- 
nell, editor; W. Lee Chambers and J. Eu- 
gene Law, business managers. 
Tracy I- Storer gave a short demonstra- 
tion of a new method of photographing 
freshly killed specimens of animals. 
H. C. Bryant briefly summarized the 
changes in game laws proposed in the Cali- 
fornia Legislature. Shorter seasons, smaller 
bag limits, and extending a measure of pro- 
tection to species not now protected, are 
the important changes to receive attention. 
The Division was fortunate in having Mr. 
W. L. McAtee of the Bureau of Biological 
Survey present. Mr. McAtee spoke of the 
economic work being done by the Survey 
on birds. A re-examination of the Crow and 
English Sparrow problems, investigation of 
disease among ducks on inland bodies of 
water in the West, studies of the food habits 
of thrushes, swallows, wrens, thrashers and 
titmice, also nighthawks and poor-wills, the 
damage being done to the oyster industry 
in Washington, the damage done by sap- 
suckers to forest trees, and the special 
methods to be used in attracting birds in 
different parts of the United States, are 
some of the problems which the economic 
ornithologists of the Survey have been or 
are now working upon. A general discus- 
