Jan., 1909 
EDITORIAL NOTES 
THE CONDOR 
An Illustrated Magazine 
of W estern Ornithology 
Publish! Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornitholoji 
cal Club of California 
JOSEPH GRINNELL. Editor. - Berkeley. Cal. 
J. EUGENE LAW. Business Manager, Hollywood, Cal. 
W. LEE CHAMBERS, Assistant Business Manager* 
Santa Monica, Cal. 
WILLIAM L. FINLEY 1 . 
ROBERT B. ROCKWELL J Assoc,a - ,e Editors 
Hollywood, California: Publisht Jan. 15,1909 
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EDITORIAL NOTES 
By a new arrangement which it is believed 
will bring about a convenient handling of 
Condor affairs, Mr. J. Eugene Law will again 
act as Business Manager, while Mr. W. Lee 
Chambers will occupy the newly-created po- 
sition of Assistant Business Manager. Since 
our magazine has grown to its present size the 
amount of business to be transacted during a 
year has become more than one person can con- 
veniently attend to. By dividing the work 
between two business managers, the drudgery 
is duly lessened. 
From now on, therefore, dues and subscrip- 
tions may be sent either to J. Eugene Law, 
Hollywood, California, or to W. Lee 
Chambers, Santa Monica, California. 
A new bird club has been organized. On 
December 19 last, at the home of Mr. W. L. 
Dawson in Seattle, was held an enthusiastic 
convention of northwestern bird students. 
The result was the formation of the “Caurinus 
Club”, having as its emblem the Ancient Mur- 
relet. The following officers were chosen: 
President, Mr. S. F. Rathbun; Vice-President, 
Mr. W. L- Finley; Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. W. 
L. Dawson. Beside those just named, Mr. J. 
H. Bowles, Mr. Allan Brooks and Mr. J. M. 
Edson were present as charter members. We 
wish the new society a very pleasant future. 
Mr. Claude Cummings, an active member of 
the Cooper Club, was accidentally killed at his 
home in Pinole, Contra Costa County, by the 
discharge of a gun which he was cleaning. Mr. 
Cummings’ work among birds was done in 
Sonoma, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties 
and tlio thru his modesty but little ever ap- 
peared in print he was a close and careful 
observer of the birds and obtained much in- 
formation of value. It was in Sonoma that the 
writer first met Mr. Cummings and spent a 
number of days afield with him. In the death 
of Mr. Cummings the birds lose a friend and 
the Club a loyal member. — II. W. Carriger. 
The sketch maps of Colorado used in Rock- 
well’s article on ‘‘The Llistory of Colorado 
Ornithology”, form part of a very complete 
series of maps owned and publisht by the 
Clason Map Company of Denver, who gener- 
ously permitted them to be publisht by The 
Condor free of charge. 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
NORTHERN DIVISION 
November. — The November meeting of the 
Cooper Ornithological Club was held in the 
Oakland Chamber of Commerce Building, 12th 
and Franklin Streets, Oakland, on the 21st 
inst. , with ten members present and one vis- 
itor. 
II. W. Carriger was selected as Secretary 
pro tempore. The minutes of the previous 
meeting were read, and approved as read. 
A communication from the secretary of the 
Elmhurst Recreation Park Co. was read and 
placed on file. Applications for membership 
of P'orrest Hanford, 1363 lltli St., Oakland, 
proposed by J. Grinnell, and Stanley G. Jewett, 
541 Lexington Ave., Portland, proposed by 
W. Otto Emerson, were, in accordance with 
the by-laws, laid over until the next meeting. 
The election by the Southern Division of 
Mr. Clarence II. Luther of Fayetteville, Ar- 
kansas, was approved. 
Mr. Grinnell moved that in the future, the 
Club meet monthly, alternate meetings to be 
held at Stanford, commencing on December 12, 
1908; and the motion was carried. 
Mr. J. E. Law, desiring to resign as Business 
Manager, on motion made by Mr. Grinnell, 
the chair appointed Mr. Lee Chambers of Santa 
Monica, as Business Manager for the balance 
of the year. On motion made by Mr. Emer- 
son, the Club extended a vote of thanks to Mr. 
J. E. Law, retiring Business Manager, for 
faithful services rendered during the past year, 
and the Secretary was instructed to write Mr. 
Law accordingly. 
On motion by Mr. Grinnell the Club voted 
to publish Avifauna No. 5 (a bibliography of 
California ornithology), provided the Club-at- 
large he not responsible for any of the costs of 
publishing the same. Upon further motion 
Mr. Lee Chambers was selected as a committee 
of one to take charge of the financing of Avi- 
fauna No. 5. 
Mr. Grinnell moved, and the motion carried, 
that the Club resolve to publish a ten-year in- 
dex of The Condor. Mr. W. O. Emerson 
was appointed by the Chair to secure the neces- 
sary funds to publish the ten-year index. 
Nominations of officers for 1909 were held, 
