May, 1915 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
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sion followed. Adjourned. — Tracy I. Storer, 
Secretary. 
February. — The regular monthly meeting 
of the Northern Division was held at the 
California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 
Berkeley, February 18, 1915, at 8 p. m. In 
the absence of both President and Vice- 
President, Mr. H. C. Bryant presided. The 
following members were present: Mesdames 
Bryant and Grinnell, the Misses Andrews, 
Culver and Dolbear, and the Messrs. Bolan- 
der, Carriger, Grinnell, Heinemann, Kendall 
and Storer. Five visitors were present. 
The minutes of the Northern Division 
January meeting were read and approved 
and the minutes of the Southern Division 
Special Meeting read. The first minutes of 
the Inter-mountain Chapter at Salt Lake 
City, Utah, were received and read with 
much interest. J. H. Paul, I. C. Schumacher, 
and G. F. Sutherland, and two persons pro- 
posed by the Southern Division in Decem- 
ber were elected to membership. The pro- 
posal of Mr. Fred. W. Chambers, 701 Walker 
Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, from 
Mrs. A. O. Treganza was received. 
H. C. Bryant briefly described the prog- 
ress of game legislation in the present ses- 
sion of the legislature. 
Tracy I. Storer read two shore-bird bio- 
graphies prepared in connection with the 
work of Grinnell, Bryant and Storer on the 
game birds of California. The species con- 
sidered were the Wilson Snipe and Avocet. 
L. P. Bolander exhibited a beautiful skin 
of an adult male American Merganser. Ad- 
journed. — Tracy I. Storer, Secretary. 
March. — The regular monthly meeting of 
the Northern Division was held at the Cali- 
fornia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 
Berkeley, California, March 18, 1915, at 8 
p. m. President Joseph Mailliard was in the 
chair with the following members present: 
Mesdames Allen and Grinnell, the Misses 
Andrews, Atsatt, Culver and Dolbear, and 
the Messrs. Bolander, Bryant, Camp, Carri- 
ger, Dice, Evermann, Grinnell, J. C. Johnson, 
Kendall, Shelton, A. G. Smith, Storer, Tre- 
nor and Weed. Five visitors were present. 
The minutes of the Northern Division 
February meeting were read and approved 
and the Southern Division February min- 
utes read. Mr. Fred W. Chambers was 
elected to membership. The following ap- 
plications for membership were received: 
Mrs. Mary Van E. Ferguson, 5 Panoramic 
Way, Berkeley, proposed by Mrs. James 
Allen, and twenty-two persons proposed at 
the Southern Division February meeting. 
Mr. Joseph Grinnell presented the Busi- 
ness Managers report for 1914. The report 
was received with great interest. Older 
members commented very favorably upon 
the excellent progress in business manage- 
ment shown by the figures presented. Pres- 
ident Joseph Mailliard outlined the progress 
of plans for the A. O. U. meeting in San 
Francisco during May. Dr. B. W. Evermann 
very kindly offered the use of the rooms of 
the California Academy of Sciences for 
Cooper Club meetings in San Francisco. 
Mr. A. C. Shelton, Field Naturalist of the 
University of Oregon, spoke on “Field Work 
in Oregon”, outlining the general biotic 
divisions of the State and recounting some 
of the more interesting incidents in his 
work of the past year. Mating habits of 
Pileated Woodpeckers were observed, win- 
ter specimens of Pine Grosbeak taken, as 
well as breeding specimens and a nest of 
the Crossbill. A discussion followed. Ad- 
journed. — Tracy I. Storer, Secretary. 
SOUTHERN DIVISION 
February. — The regular meeting of the 
Southern Division was held at the Museum 
of History, Science and Art, Thursday even- 
ing, February 25, 1915. President Law was 
in the chair and the following members in 
attendance: Mrs. Gertrude Husher, Miss 
Claire Germain, and Messrs. Barnes, Blain, 
Brown, Chambers, Colburn, Daggett, Ed- 
wards, Fischer, Granville, Hegner, Howell, 
Holland, Alphonse Jay, Antonin Jay, Jewett, 
Little, Miller, Morcom, Nokes, Rich, Robert- 
son, Swarth, Wood and Wyman. Visitors 
present were Mrs. George Wood and Mrs. 
H. Mullin. 
The Southern Division minutes for Decem- 
ber, 1914, and for the special meeting of 
January 22, 1915, were read and approved. 
No regular meeting was held during Janu- 
ary. Northern Division minutes for Decem- 
ber, January and February were read, and 
also the first minutes received, for the Feb- 
ruary meeting, of the newly formed Inter- 
Mountain Chapter of Salt Lake City, Utah. 
New members elected were J. N. Swift, 
Stockport, Ohio, and W. A. Ford, Umatilla, 
Oregon. A motion was also passed electing 
to membership those whose names were ap- 
proved in the Northern Division meetings of 
December, January and February. New 
names were presented as follows: M. P. 
Skinner, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming; W. S. 
Richmond, Batavia, N. Y. ; H. K. Job, West 
Haven, Conn.; J. Kittredge, Jr., Missoula, 
Mont.; G. C. Cantwell, Puyallup, Wash.; H. 
H. Mitchell, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; 
