Mar., 1916 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
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President appoint a committee of three to 
consider the matter, and that this commit- 
tee would be permitted to make recommen- 
dations to the Commission without first re- 
porting to the Division- The committee 
comprises: W. P. Taylor, chairman, J. Grin- 
nell, and T. I. Storer. 
Business being disposed of, the Division 
listened to a talk by Mr. Joseph Grinnell 
on “The Distributional Behavior of Some 
Birds in the Yosemite Region”. The speak- 
er brought out the complementary nature of 
the ranges of a number of groups of Frin- 
gillidae and then displayed a series of lan- 
tern slides showing photographs of various 
birds of the Yosemite region. Adjourned. — 
Tracy I. Stoker, Secretary. 
January. — The regular monthly meeting 
of the Northern Division of the Cooper Or- 
nithological Club was held at the Museum 
of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, 
January 20, 1916, at 8 p. m. President 
Joseph Mailliard was in the chair with the 
following members present: Mesdames Al- 
len, Grinnell, Klugel and Schlisinger, the 
Misses Atterbury, Culver, Gunn, Swezy and 
Wythe, and Messrs. Bryant, Carriger, Dan- 
iels, Dixon, Grinnell, H. E. Hansen, Kendall, 
Newberry, Storer, W. P. Taylor, Wheeler, 
and Wright. Mesdames Dixon, Newberry 
and Stone were among the visitors present. 
The minutes of the December, 1915, 
Northern Division meeting were read and 
approved, and those of the Southern Divi- 
sion and Inter-mountain Chapter were read. 
The following were elected to membership: 
Miss Edna A. Hannibal, Harold E. Hansen, 
Curtis Wright, Jr., and seven persons pro- 
posed at the Southern Division in Novem- 
ber, 1915. Applications for membership 
were received as follows: Miss Alice F. 
Crane, 314 Cherry St., San Francisco, and 
Miss Augusta H. Blanchard, 246 Perry St., 
Oakland, both proposed by Miss Susan B. 
Culver; Mrs. Charles S. Newhall, 2629 Pied- 
mont Ave., Berkeley, proposed by Mrs. Jas. 
T. Allen; also six applications received at 
the Southern Division December 1915 
meeting. 
Resignations were read and accepted 
from L. R. Kessing and Miss Louise LeBris. 
Dr. Walter P. Taylor presented his resig- 
nation as Chairman of the Permanent Com- 
mittee on Conservation of Wild Life and as 
Cooper Club representative on the Execu- 
tive Committee of the California Associ- 
ated Societies for the Conservation of Wild 
Life, to date from February 20. The resig- 
nation was accepted. 
The Secretary read part of a letter from 
Mr. Chambers urging all Club members to 
participate in an attempt to increase the 
membership roll. The special committee 
appointed at the December meeting report- 
ed that it has recommended to the Califor- 
nia Fish and Game Commission that in the 
interests of conservation scientific collec- 
tors be denied the privilege of collecting 
the American and Snowy Egrets. Mr. Jos- 
eph Grinnell was nominated for Editor of 
The Condor during 1916, and Messrs. W. 
Lee Chambers and J. Eugene Law as Busi- 
ness Managers. On motion by Mr. Wright 
it was declared the sense of those present 
that the Division should meet in San Fran- 
cisco in the near future. 
Election of officers resulted as follows: 
President, Tracy I. Storer; Vice-President, 
H. W. Carriger; Secretary, Mrs. Jas. T. 
Allen. 
The program of the evening was then 
presented. Mr. W. C. Newberry gave an in- 
teresting account of the “Nesting Habits of 
the Wren-tit”, based upon intensive obser- 
vations made in Berkeley during April, 
1915. Mr. R. S. Wheeler gave an interest- 
ing account of “Oological Collecting Experi- 
ences on the Gila River in April, 1915”, and 
showed a number of slides illustrative of 
the region visited. Adjourned. — Tracy I. 
Storer, Secretary. 
February. — The regular monthly meeting 
of the Northern Division of the Cooper Or- 
nithological Club was held at the Museum 
of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, 
February 17, 1916, at 8 r. m. President 
Tracy I. Storer was in the chair, with the 
following members present: Mesdames Al- 
len, Ferguson, Grant, Grinnell, Kluegel, 
Schlisinger; Misses Crane, Culver, Gunn, 
Miller, Wythe; Messrs. Anderson, Bade, 
Bolander, Carriger, Evermann, Grinnell, 
Hansen, Lastreto, Joseph Mailliard, Ohl, 
Rankin, Ray, Swarth and Wright. Mrs. 
Anderson, Miss Davidson, Mr. Jacobsen, 
Mrs. Swarth, Miss Newlon, Mr. Schlisinger 
and Mr- Snow were among the visitors 
present. 
The minutes of the January, 1916, North- 
ern Division meeting were read and ap- 
proved. The following were elected to 
membership: Miss Alice F. Crane, Miss 
Augusta Blanchard, Mrs. Charles S. New- 
hall, and six persons proposed at the South- 
ern Division meeting in December, 1915. 
Mrs. Nellie C. Knappen, 2844 Webster St., 
Berkeley, was proposed for membership by 
Mrs. J. T. Allen. 
