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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XV 
THE CONDOR 
A. Magazine of 
"Western OrnitKology 
Published Bi-Monthly by the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
J. GRINNELL. Editor, Berkeley. California 
HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor 
J. EVGENE LAW 1 _ . 
W. LEE CHAMBERS / Managers 
Hollywood, California: Published December 10, 1913 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
.At the recent congress of the Arnerican 
(.)rnithologi.sts’ Lhiion, in New AArk Cit}', No- 
\ eniher 11, distinction was conferred upon 
three Pacific Coast men. Josepli Alailliard w;is 
elected Fellow, and ^'V. Lee Chaniliers and 
Oeorge Willett were elected Members. Mr. 
Mailliard's election is the first to the class of 
Fellows, as far as this coast is concerned, since 
that of Walter K. Fisher in 19(15. 
Air. L. E. WA'inan, lecently of Nampa, Idaho, 
has removed to Los Angeh-s, where he is in 
charge of the work of excavating the fossils 
at the Rancho La Brea, for the Museum of 
History, Science and Art. 
The Cooper Ornithological Cluh has been 
honored through the appointment of Mr. 
George Willett of Los Angeles as Inspector 
under the new Federal Migratory Bird Law. 
In explanation it may he said that the plan 
worked out by Dr. T. S. Palmer and those 
others of the Department of Agriculture in 
whose hands rests the administration o^f the 
law, involves the division of the United States 
into thirteen districts, each to be m charge 
of an experienced inspector and a force of 
about 25 picked men selected bv the state 
game commissions. The California District, 
of which Mr. Willett is to he Inspector, in- 
cludes also Nevada and Arizona. The task 
of putting the new law into effect concerns 
every State in the Union and is one of the 
greatest ever attempted in the histoij of game 
protection. We congratulate Air. Willett upon 
his appointment, and wish him all success in 
his new office. 
The friends of Mr. Joseph Dixon are much 
concerned over his failure to return home this 
fall from his Alaskan trip, as expected. It is now 
practically certain that the Polar Bear vessel 
in which Dixon’s party was exploring the 
arctic coasts of Siberia and Alaska, has been 
frozen in for the winter somewhere east of 
Point Barrow. No word is likely to 
he received from the party before the ice 
lireaks up, next July or August. Dixon will 
certainly have abundant opportunity to study 
and collect whatever animal life is available 
around his winter quarters. It is to be 
earnestly hoped that no mishap or extraordin- 
ary Inirdship overtakes his party, and that he 
returns to us in due time with sufficiently valu- 
able results to compensate him for his long 
and involuntary isolation. 
Attention of all Cooper Club members is 
hereby directed to our Business Alanagers' an- 
nouncements on inside front cover of tins 
issue. Alatcrial and prompt response to their 
requests is recommended as being in line with 
the continued success and activity of the Cluh 
and its publications. 
The Biological Survey announces with 
deep regret the death of Alajor John Fletcher 
Lacey, a member of the Advisory Board un 
Aligratory Birds. According to press tns- 
patches, Alajor Lacey's death, due to apoplexy, 
occurred on September 29, 1913, at the age of 
72. at his home in Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
During the sixteen years in which he serv- 
ed in Congress, 1889 to 1891, and 1893 to 
1907, he was connected with most of the meas- 
ures relating to conservation. One of the 
earliest statutes which he assisted in passing 
was the Act of Alay 7, 1894, protecting birds 
and animals in the Yellowstone National 
Park. As author of various hills protecting 
game he early became known as the "Father 
of Federal Game Legislation". Following are 
some of the more important measures for the 
protection of wild life which he introduced 
and which are now on the statute books; The 
act which 'lears his name, regulating inter- 
state commerce in game, 1900 ; the first Alaska 
game law, 1902; the act creating the Wichita 
Game Refuge in Oklahoma. 1905; the appro- 
priation for the herd of buffalo in the Yel- 
lowstone Park, 1905; the National Aloniiments 
Act, 1906; the law protecting birds on bird 
reservations, 1906. 
During his chairmanship of the blouse Com- 
mittee on Public Lands m 1904, he became 
deeply interested in the first bill for the pro 
lection of migratory birds, introduced by Hon. 
George Shiras. Later, after his retirement 
from Congress, he devoted considerable study 
to this question and proposed certain amend- 
ments in what is sometimes known as the 
Lacev Alodification of the Aligratory Bird 
Bill, introduced in the House by Hon. John 
W. Weeks on May 28. 1909. 
His keen interest in game legislation con- 
tinned after his retirement to private life and 
on at least two occasions he was actively in- 
terested in the passage of important meas- 
ures. Early in 1909 he appeared before tne 
Committee which codified the penal laws and 
