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Volume XVI 
May-Jvine, 1914' 
Nvimber 3 
THE COOPER CLUB MEMBER AND SCIENTIFIC WORK* 
By HAROLD C. BRYANT 
A t the end of each year the merchant takes an inventory of his stock 
and makes plans for future business. In the same way, it seems to me, 
such an organization as the Cooper Ornithological Club can well afford 
to take the time to consider in review its accomplishments of the preceding 
year and to outline its policies for the coming year. It is therefore fitting that 
tonight Ave should look into the past, estimate where we stand at the present, 
and with the data from these tAvo sources as a foAindation, formulate Avorking 
plans for the future. 
We cannot pride ourselves on being an old organization, for Ave Avill only 
have reached our majority next June. It Avas on June 22, 1893, that four youth- 
ful but earnest bird students met in San Jose and organized the Cooper Ornith- 
ological Club, naming the organization after that pioneer student of birds in 
California, Dr. J. G. Cooper. The charter members Avere W. H. Osgood, H. R. 
Painton, Chester BarloAv and P. A. Schneider, the four constitAiting the first 
officers of the Club. By the end of the first ^mar the Club’s membership num- 
liered tAventy-five. “The Nidiologist’’, an amateiir bird magazine, several 
lUAinhers of Avhich had already appeared under the editorship of Harry R. Tay- 
lor, formerly of Alameda, Avas taken over as the official organ. In 1897 the 
“Nid” susiDended publication, and it Avas not until a year later that the first 
“Bulletin” of the Cooper Club Avas issued. During the interim “The Osprey”, 
another amateur ornithological magazine, issued at Galesburg, Illinois, Avas 
used as the publishing medium of the Club, the notes being edited by D. A. 
Cohen. After a year the “Bulletin” of the Cooper Ornithological Club Avas 
]iamed The Condor, and under this name is noAv Avell knoAvn as a magazine of 
Avestern ornithology. 
In 1894 members of the Club residing in southern California obtained per- 
*President’s address, delivered at Northern Division meeting-, Cooper Ornithological 
Club, March 19, 1914. 
