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May, 1915 MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS sion followed. Adjourned.--TRacY I. STOR?R,' ?'ecretary. FEBRVARY.--The regular monthly meeting of the Northern Division was held at the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, February 18, 1915, at 8 p.m. In the absence of both President and Vice- President, Mr. H. C. Bryant presided. The following members were present: Mesdames Bryant and Grinnell, the Misses Andrews, Culver and Dolbear, and the Messrs. Bolan- der, Cartiger, Grinnell, Helnemann, Kendall and Storer. Five visitors were present. The minutes of the Northern. Division January meeting were read and approved and the minutes of the Southern Division Special Meeting read. The first minutes of the Inter-mountain Chapter at Salt Lake City, Utah, were received and read with much interest. J, H. Paul, I. C. Schumacher, and G. F. Sutherland, and two persons pro- posed by the Southern Division in Decem- ber were elected to ,membership. The pro- posal of Mr. Fred. W. Chambers, 701 Walker Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, from Mrs. A. O. Treganza was received. H. C. Bryant briefly described the prog- ress of game legislation in the present ses- sion of the legislature. Tracy I. Storer read two shore-bird bio- graphies prepared in connection with the work of Grinnell, Bryant and Storer on the game birds of California. The species con- sidered were the Wilson Snipe and Avocet. L. P. Bolander exhibited a beautiful skin of an adult male American Merganser. Ad- journed.-TRacY I. STORER, ?ecretary. MARCH.--The regular monthly meeting of the Northern Division was held at the Cali- fornia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, March 18, 1915, at 8 p.m. President Joseph Mailllard was in the chair with the following members present: Mesdames Allen and Grinnell, the Misses Andrews, Atsatt, Culver and Dolbear, and the Messrs..Bolander, Bryant, Camp, Carti- ger, Dice, Evermann, Grinnell, J. C. Johnson, Kendall, Shelton, A. G. Smith, Storer, Tre- nor and Weed. Five visitors were present. The minutes of the Northern Division February meeting were read and approved and the Southern Division February min- utes read. Mr. Fred W. Chambers was elected to membership. The following ap- plications for membership were received: Mrs. Mary Van E. Ferguson, 5 Panoramic Way, Berkeley, proposed by Mrs. James Allen, and twenty-two persons proposed at the Southern Division February meeting. Mr. Joseph Grinnell presented the Busi- ness Managers report for 1914. The report was received with great interest. Older members commented very favorably upon the excellent progress in business manage- ment shown. by the figures presented. Pres- ident Joseph Mailllard outlined the progress of plans for the A. O. U. meeting in San Francisco during May. Dr. B. W. Evermann very kindly offered the use of the rooms of the California Academy of Sciences for Cooper Club meetings in San Francisco. Mr. A. C. Shelton, Field Naturalist of the University of Oregon, spoke on "Field Work in Oregon", outlining the general biotic divisions of the State and recounting some of the more interesting incidents in his work of the past year. Mating habits of Pileated Woodpeckers were observed, win- ter specimens of Pine Grosbeak taken, as well as breeding specimens and a nest of the Crossbill. A discussion followed. Ad- journed.--TRxcY I. STORER, ?'ecretary. SOUTHERN DIVISION FEBRU_?RY.--The regular meeting of the Southern Division was held at the Museum of History, Science and Art, Thursday even- ing, February 25, 1915. President Law was in the chair and the following members in attendance: Mrs. Gertrude Husher, Miss Claire Germain, and Messrs. Barnes, Blain, Brown, Chambers, Colburn, Daggett, Ed- wards, Fischer, Granville, Hegner, Howell, Holland, Alphonse Jay, Antonin Jay, Jeweft, Little, Miller, Morcom, Nokes, Rich, Robert- son, Swarth, Wood and Wyma n . Visitors present were Mrs. George Wood and Mrs. H. Mullin. The Southern Division mlnntes for Decem- ber, 1914, and for the special meeting of January 22, 1915, were read and approved. No regular meeting was held during Janu- ary, Northern Division minutes for Decem- ber, January and February were read, and also the first minutes received, for the Feb- ruary meeting, of the newly formed Inter- Mountain Chapter of Salt Lake City, Utah. New members elected were J. N. Swift, Stockport, Ohio, and W. A. Ford, Umatilla, Oregon. A motion was also passed electing to membership those whose names were ap- proved in the Northern Division meetings of December, January and February. New names were presented as ?ollows: M.P. Skinner, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming; W. S. Richmond, Batavia, N.Y.; H. K. Job, West Haven, Conn.; J. Kittredge, Jr., Missoula, Mont.; G. C. Cantwell, Puyallup, Wash.; H. H. Mitchell, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada;