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Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union. 
The meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union in 
Washington, D.C., on 8-11 November, 1920, was one of 
the largest in the history of the Union. One-half of the 
Fellows and about 10 per cent, of the entire membership 
were in attendance. The business meetings on Monday Avere 
held at the Cosmos Club, and the other sessions at the 
U.S. National Museum. The election of Fellows and 
Members included Robert Cushman Murphy of Brooklyn, 
N.Y., as Fellow ; E. C. Stuart Baker and Dr. Percy Lowe 
of London, Honorary Fellows ; 13 Foreign Corresponding 
Fellows, among whom were Miss Dorothea Bate, Major 
Claude H. B. Grant, Miss Maud H. Haviland, Capt. Colling- 
wood Ingram, David Seth-Smith, and Miss Emma L.Turner; 
5 Members and 307 Associates. The election of officers for 
1921 resulted as follows:—President, Dr. Witmer Stone, 
Philadelphia; Vice-Presidents, Dr. George Bird Grinnell 
and Dr. Jonathan Dwight, New York ; Secretary, Dr. T. S. 
Palmer, 1939 Biltmore St., Washington, D.C.; Treasurer, 
W. L. McAtee, Biological Survey, Washington, D.C. The 
single vacancy in the Council was filled by the selection of 
Dr. W. H. Os'good of Chicago, and the other six members 
were re-elected. The program of nearly forty papers, five of 
which were illustrated by motion pictures, covered a wide 
range of subjects relating to North American birds, and also 
included papers on the birds of Argentina, Nicaragua, Peru, 
Europe, and Madagascar. In connection with the meeting 
an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and photographs of 
birds b} r American artists, supplemented by a series of prints 
showing the development of zoological illustration as applied 
to birds from the earliest times down to date, Avas arranged 
in the Division of Prints in the Library of Congress. 
T. S. Palmer, 
Secretary. 
