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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XV 
A communication from the secretary of the 
Pacific Association of Scientific Societies was 
read, relative to the following points: (1) A 
request to vote upon the proposed admission 
of the Puget Sound Section of the American 
Ch.emical Society into the Association. (An- 
sv.'cred affirmatively.) (2) As to v/hether 
the Cooper Club planned to hold a meeting 
at Berkeley in April, as part of the annual 
meeting of the Association. (Yes.) (3) A 
query as to the present membership of the 
Cooper Club. (4) A notice that the annual 
dues of the Club were now payable. 
In the absence of Mr. Taylor, chairman of 
the committee on the conservation of wild 
life, PI. C. Bryant gave a short verbal report 
of the recent activities of the committee. 
Owing to the impossibility of the present 
incumbent continuing to act as secretary of 
the Northern Division, his name was with- 
drawn from nomination and the name of 
Tracy I. Storer substituted. The election of 
officers for 1913 gave the following results: 
President, PI. W. Carriger ; Vice-President, 
H. C. Bryant; Secretary, T. I. Storer. 
Business being disposed of, the remainder 
of the evening was devoted to a paper by A. 
C. Chandler, on “Experiences with Tamed 
Wild Birds”. Adjourned.— H. S. Swarth, 
Secretary. 
February. — The regular monthly meeting 
of the Northern Division of the Cooper Orni- 
thological Club was held at the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, on 
February 20, 1913, with President Carriger in 
the chair. The following members were pres- 
ent : Mrs. Grinnell, Miss Atsatt, Messrs. Bry- 
ant. Carriger, Chandler, Grinnell, Shelton, A. 
G. Smith, Stock, Stone, Storer, and Taylor. 
Mrs. Taylor, and the Misses Bruckmann, 
Dodge, and Little were present as visitors. 
The minutes of the January meeting were 
read and approved and the minutes of the 
Southern Division for January were read. 
Mr. E. E. Everett of Ventura, California, 
was elected to membership. The following 
applications for membership were presented : 
Mabel C. Gage, Worcester, Mass., and 
Thomas Trenor, 1501 Scott St., San Fran- 
cisco, California, proposed by J. Grinnell ; 
Claus Johan Murie, and Asa Sleeth, both of 
Portland, Oregon, proposed by Stanley G. 
Jewett, and John B. Perrin, Tucson, Ariz., 
proposed by A. B. Howell. 
Mr. Joseph Grinnell gave a brief summary 
of the report of the Business Managers of 
the Club for 1912. The report was heartily 
approved. 
Mr. W. P. Taylor, Chairman of the Com- 
mittee on the Conservation of Wild Life, then 
introduced the following resolutions : 
Resolved: that the Northern Division of 
the Cooper Ornithological Club, realizing that 
California is doomed to become practically 
birdless and gameless in ten years unless 
present measures regulating wild life are en- 
forced and added to, does hereby request the 
members of the California State Legislature 
of 1913 to pass, without amendment, the 
Flint-Cary bill to prohibit the sale of wild 
game, as being a remedial measure which 
would be in the interest of every citizen of 
the State of California, and which would be 
constitutional and effective. 
Resolved : that the Northern Division of 
the Cooper Ornithological Club, realizing the 
tremendous importance of rigorous protection 
of non-game birds, does hereby urge that no 
measure be passed removing protection from 
any of the non-game birds in any section of 
the State, particularly the robin, meadow- 
lark, and blackbird. 
Mr. Taylor moved that the foregoing reso- 
lutions be spread upon the minutes of the 
meeting and that copies be sent to each mem- 
ber of the Committees on Fish and Game of 
both houses of the Legislature, and to the 
Secretary of the Southern Division, accom- 
panied in each case by a letter of transmittal 
from the Secretary, and that the Southern 
Division be asked to adopt similar resolu- 
tions and to transmit them in a similar man- 
ner. The motion was carried. 
Mr. Taylor moved that it be declared the 
sense of the meeting that the urgency of the 
situation as regards conservation demands 
that each individual present write letters to 
his Senator and Assemblyman, strongly urg- 
ing the passage of the Flint-Cary bill to pro- 
hibit the sale of game, and the defeat of all 
measures designed to remove protection from 
any of the non-game birds, especially the rob- 
in, meadowlark, and blackbird. 
Mr. Taylor further reported that a “West- 
ern Wild Life Call” was issued on Februarv 
7th, and that now practically the whole edi- 
tion of 15,000 copies has been distributed. 
Progress along the whole line of game con- 
servation was reported. The State of Ore- 
gon has passed a no-sale hill so that Califor- 
nia is now surrounded on all sides by no- 
sale territory. 
A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. H. 
S. Swarth for his services to the club in the 
position of .Secretary of the Northern Divi- 
sion. 
Business of the evening being disposed of, 
Mr. .A.lfred Shelton read a paper entitled 
“Woodpecker Notes” the material for wdiich 
was gathered in Sonoma County during a res- 
idence of several years. After discussion of 
the paper the meeting adjourned. — Tracy 1. 
Storer, Secretary. 
