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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XVI 
Los Angeles, by H. S. Swarth; Mrs. Edward 
Gay Butler, Berryville, Virginia, by H. H. 
Bailey; W. E. Boering, Seattle, Washington, 
by C. K. Knickerbocker; Robert W. Wil- 
liams, Takoma Park, Maryland, by T. S. 
Palmer; Mrs. Marie Andrews Commons, 
Crystal Bay, Minnesota, by T. S. Roberts; 
R. Bruce Horsfall, Princeton, New Jersey, 
by Alex. Walker; Frederick Adam, Tropico, 
and D. I. Simmons, Los Angeles, both pre- 
sented by A. E. Colburn; and the following 
presented by W. Lee Chambers: Mrs. Her- 
bert Brown, Tucson, Arizona; Dr. R. L. 
Walker, Carnegie, Pennsylvania; George S. 
Shiras 3rd, Washington, D. C.; C. F. Hodge, 
Eugene, Oregon; Dr. Winsor M. Tyler, Lex- 
ington, Massachusetts; John P. Young, 
Youngstown, Ohio; Edwin B. Hunt, Wash- 
ington, D. C.; Horace G. Smith, Denver, Col- 
orado; Fred Barker, Parkers Prairie, Minne- 
sota; and Mrs. Harriet Brown Thornber, 
Tucson, Arizona. 
At the suggestion of Mr. Law the com- 
mittee on arrangements for the joint Amer- 
ican Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Club 
meeting to be held next year, was increased 
to five. The personnel of this committee 
will be announced later by Mr. Law, the 
chairman. 
There was considerable discussion over 
the suggestion recently submitted by the 
editor of The Condor, that the magazine 
hereafter publish matter pertaining to 
other branches of zoology besides ornith- 
ology, but no formal action was taken by 
the Division at this time. 
Messrs. Law, Wyman, Colburn, and Nokes 
displayed a number of beautifully made 
skins, recently collected, of many local spe- 
cies of birds in the younger stages. Downy 
young of several species of water birds, and 
the juvenal plumages of some of the rarer 
land birds were included. Adjourned. — H. 
S. Savartii, Secretary. 
NORTHERN DIVISION 
June. — The regular monthly meeting of 
the Northern Division was held at the Mu- 
seum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Cali- 
fornia, Thursday evening, June 18, 1914, 
with President Bryant in the chair and the 
following members present: Mrs. Grinnell, 
Messrs. Evermann, Grinnell, J. Mailliard, 
Storer, W. P. Taylor and Trenor. Messrs. 
Martens and McDonald were visitors. The 
minutes of the Northern Division for May 
were read and approved followed by the 
reading of the Southern Division minutes 
for May. The following were elected to 
membership: Edward E. Armstrong, J. 
Howard Richey, and Ernest Schaeffle. New 
names proposed were as follows: Miss 
Charlotte Bowditch of Santa Barbara by W. 
Lee Chambers and Dr. Irwin D. Nokes of 
Los Angeles by A. E. Colburn. 
It was moved, seconded and carried that 
a committee of three he appointed by the 
President to consider the proposed consti- 
tution of the Pacific Division of the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science and to report at the July meeting. 
A letter from Mr. A. L. Barrows was read 
asking that the Cooper Club furnish the 
Pacific Division of the A. A. A. S. with suf- 
ficient stationery to send a circular letter 
to the members of the Club who are not yet 
members of the American Association offer- 
ing them membership in the latter associa- 
tion without the necessity of paying the 
regular $5.00 initiation fee. The matter 
was referred to the officers of the Division 
with power to act. 
Dr. H. C. Bryant then addressed the Di- 
vision on “The Status of California’s Duck 
Population in 1914”. The address covered 
the experiences of Dr. Bryant and his as- 
sistant in a recent trip to the more im- 
portant duck breeding grounds in California 
and the southern lake region of Oregon. 
Adjourned. — Tract I. Storer, Secretary. 
July.— The regular monthly meeting of 
the Northern Division of the Cooper Ornith- 
ological Club was held in Room 101, Califor- 
nia Hall, Friday evening, July 17, 1914. The 
meeting was open to the public. 
President Bryant presided and introduced 
as speaker of the evening. Dr. Walter P. 
Taylor, Chairman of the Permanent Com- 
mittee on the Conservation of Wild Life, 
who spoke on the subject of “Our Vanish- 
ing Wild Life”. About three hundred per- 
sons were present as visitors, the meeting 
having been extensively advertised. The 
lecture was illustrated with lantern slides. 
A short business session was held at the 
close of the lecture to consider some ap- 
plications. Those present were: Messrs. 
Bryant, Carriger, Evermann, Grinnell, 
Schaeffle, Storer and Taylor. The following 
were elected to membership: Miss Char- 
lotte Bowditch and Dr. Irwin D. Nokes. 
New names were proposed as follows: Dr. 
George Bird Grinnell, 238 East 15th St., 
New York City; Enos A. Mills, Longs Peak, 
Estes Park, Colorado, and Blizaheth J. 
Worcester (Mrs. Alfred Worcester), Bacon 
St., Waltham, Mass., all proposed by J. 
Grinnell; and Miss Minnette MacKay, 2420 
Channing Way, Berkeley, California, pro- 
posed by Tracy I. Storer. 
Adjourned.— T racy I. Storer, Secretary. 
