ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE 
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interested in conservation. The success story of 
the Whooping Crane from 21 individual birds in 
1941 to multiple wild and managed flocks 
numbering in the hundreds provides a ray of hope 
for other rare species.—MARY GUSTAFSON, 
Rio Grande Joint Venture, American Bird 
Conservancy, Mission, TX 78572, USA; e- 
mail: mgustafson@abcbirds.org 
Secretaries of the Wilson Ornithological Society 
Lynds Jones 
1888-1889 
J. Warren Jacobs 
1890-1891 
Willard N. Clute 
1892 
J. Warren Jacobs 
1893 
William B. Caulk 
1894 
J. E. Dickinson 
1895-1897 
W. L. Dawson 
1898-1901 
John W. Daniel Jr. 
1902-1905 
Frank L. Burns 
1906 
Benjamin T. Gault 
1907-1911 
C. W. G. Eifrig 
1912-1913 
Orpheus M. Schantz 
1914 
Thomas L. Hankinson 
1915-1916 
G. A. Abbott 
1917 
Albert F. Ganier 
1918-1922 
Gordon Wilson 
1923-1925 
Howard K. Gloyd 
1926-1928 
Jesse M. Shaver 
1929-1931 
Lawrence E. Hicks 
1932-1936 
Olin Sewell Pettingill Jr. 
1937-1941 
Maurice Brooks 
1942-1946 
James B. Young 
1947-1948 
Harold F. Mayfield 
1948-1951 
Phillips B. Street 
1952-1955 
Fred T. Hall 
1956-1957 
Aaron M. Bagg 
1958-1961 
Pershing B. Hofslund 
1962-1966 
Jeff Swinebroad 
1967-1971 
James Tate Jr. 
1971-1978 
Curtis S. Adkisson 
1978-1984 
John L. Zimmerman 
1984-1994 
John A. Smallwood 
1995-2000 
Sara R. Morris 
2001-2005 
John A. Smallwood 
2006- 
Treasurers of the Wilson Ornithological Society 
Reuben M. Strong 
1892-1893 
Lynds Jones 
1894-1901 
Frank L. Bums 
1902-1905 
Bradshaw H. Swales 
1906-1908 
W. F. Henninger 
1909-1913 
P. B. Coffin 
1914-1916 
Frank M. Phelps 
1917-1919 
George L. Fordyce 
1920-1922 
William l. Lyon 
1923 
Ben J. Blincoe 
1924-1926 
J. W. Stack 
1927-1929 
Walter M. Rosene 
1930-1935 
S. E. Perkins III 
1936-1938 
Gustav A. Swanson 
1939-1942 
Milton B. Trautman 
1943-1945 
Burt L. Monroe 
1946-1950 
James H. Olson 
1950 
Leonard C. Brecher 
1951-1954 
Ralph M. Edeburn 
1955-1958 
Merrill Wood 
1959-1962 
C. Chandler Ross 
1963-1967 
William A. Klamm 
1968-1972 
Jerome A. Jackson 
1973 
Ernest E. Hoover 
1974-1978 
Robert D. Bums 
1979-1991 
Doris J. Watt 
1992-2000 
Martha Vaughn 
2001-2004 
Melinda M. Clark 
2005- 
