MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS
SOUTHERN DIVISION
April.—Regular monthly meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Club, Southern Division, was held at the Museum of History, Science and Art, at 8:00 p.m., April 24, 1919. In the absence of President and Vice-President, Mr. Chambers was acclaimed chairman. Other members present were Messrs. Brown, Brouse, Bishop, Daggett, Hanaford, Howell, Reis, Rich, Taylor and Wyman, and Miss Palmer.
Minutes of the March meeting were read and approved, followed by reading of minutes of the Northern Division for March. On motion by Dr. Rich the Secretary was instructed to cast an electing ballot for the persons whose names were presented at the previous meeting. New names presented were: Waldo L. Rich, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., by Dr. G. C. Rich; Miss L. M. Peck, 1510 Girard Ave., Los Angeles, by A. B. Dickinson; Richard Baxter Atwell, 676 So. Bronson Ave., Los Angeles, and D. de Rebcowsky, 811 Story Building, Los Angeles, by W. Lee Chambers. The name of Richard Cox, 3rd, was received from the Northern Division.
There being no further business matters for consideration, the members spent an hour in general discussion and inspection of several trays of warbler skins. Adjourned.—L. E. Wyman, Secretary.
May.—Regular monthly meeting of the Southern Division, Cooper Ornithological Club, was held at the Museum of History, Science and Art, at 8:30 p.m., May 29, 1919. Members present were: Messrs. Appleton, Chambers, Hansford, Howell, Miller, Reis, Rich, Robertson, and Wyman.
Minutes of the April meeting were read and approved. On motion by Mr. Robertson the Secretary was instructed to cast an electing ballot for the persons whose names were proposed at that meeting. New names presented were: Walter Clark, 424 So. Broadway, Santa Aria, by Wright M. Pierce; Esther McDuff, Coachella Union High School, Indio, by C. O. Esterly. Four names were received from the Northern Division: T. C. Frye, Mrs. Flora C. Hayes, Miss Mary E. McLellan, and F. N. Bassett.
The following resolution was adopted: Resolved, that in the death of D. I. Shepardson, the Cooper Ornithological Club has lost a valued member, and ornithology, to which he showed an unwavering devotion, has lost a valued friend, and that the Southern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club extends its sincere sympathy to his family in their bereavement.
There being no other business matters for consideration, an hour of informal discussion followed, during which various members related recent collecting experiences, while Mr. Robertson told of some highly interesting and amusing incidents connected with trips made to various islands of the Santa Barbara group, some twenty years ago and later. Adjourned.—L. E. Wyman, Secretary.
NORTHERN DIVISION
July.—The regular monthly meeting of Northern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club was held at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, on Thursday evening, July 17, 1919, at 8 p.m. President Evermann was in the chair, with the following in attendance: Members: Mesdames Grinnell, Noack, and Schlesinger; Miss Pringle; Messrs. Carriger, Grinnell, Labarthe, Lastreto, Joseph Mailliard, Noack, Ray, Storer, and R. S. Wheeler. Visitors: Mesdames H. E. Thompson, Mary A. Van Dyke, and Florence G. Wheeler; Misses Elizabeth Hendren, Elizabeth Livingston, Mabel Cassell, Mary Gallochar, F. E. Carlton, Myrtle West, Roxana Osgood, Maud Swarth, Roxana Stevens, Miriam M. Wood, Carmen A. Blessing, Bessie M. Lander, Marion Clark, Josephine Geiselhart, Beatrice Howitt and Eleanor Howard; Messrs. L. B. Browning, Ellis S. Jacobs and Arthur Farquhar.
The minutes of the June meeting were read and approved. Proposals for membership were made as follows: Miss Josephine Geiselhart, Concord, Calif., by Margaret M. Wythe; Mr. Arthur G. Brown, 359 Monadnock Bldg., San Francisco, Calif., by Milton S. Ray.
Dr. Evermann reported that the Pacific Fisheries Society had adopted strong resolutions relative to the need of oil companies controlling the dumping of crude oil on the ocean adjacent to the California coast and that progress was being made in the campaign to eliminate this evil.
Mr. Joseph Mailliard recounted his experiences in collecting in portions of Lake and Mendocino Counties during the past season and Mr. Jules Labarthe told of his season's work.
Tracy I. Storer presented as the paper of the evening an account of "Some birds of the Yosemite and High Sierra Nevada". Discussion and examination of material recently collected in the Yosemite region followed the presentation of the paper. Adjourned.—Tracy I. Storer, Secretary, protem.
