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Nov., 1919 EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 241 ington during the season just passed under the auspices of the Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cooperating with the Survey in the field work at differ- ent times were the following: Professor Wil- liam T Shaw, State College of Washington, Pullman; Professor H. S. Brode, .Whitman College, Walla Walla; Professor J. W. Hun- gate, State Normal School, Cheney; Profes- sor J. B. Flett, National Park Service, Long- mire; Mr. William L. Finley and Mrs. Fin- ley, Portland, Oregon; and Stanton Warbur- ton, Jr., Tacoma. The Biological Survey was represented for a part of the time by Mr. Stanley G. Jewerr, Predatory Animal Inspec- tor, Pendleton, Oregon; and throughout the season by Mr. George G. Cantwell, Field As- sistant, Puyallup, Washington, and Dr. Wal- ter P. Taylor, Assistant Biologist, Washing- ton, D.C., the latter in charge of the work. Investigations were made in the Blue Moun- tains area of extreme southeastern Washing- ton, in which occurs an unusual mixture of Rocky Mountain and Cascade Mountain types; and in Mr. Rainier National Park, in connection with which the circuit of Mt. Rainier was made for the first time, so far as known, by any vertebrate zoological ex- pedition. Mr. Cantwell is continuing the survey through the fall and winter, being engaged at present in working the bunch- grass and sage.brush country of eastern Washington. Mr. Harry Harris, of Kansas City, Missou- ri, has recently brought to our attention the very interesting details of the trial of the case which tested the validity of the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act in the United States Court at that point. It will be?re - membered that Missouri has been the center of opposition to the provisions of this Act from the start, both on the part of one of the United States senators at the time the bill was before the Senate and subsequently when it came to enforcing the law. It is a satisfaction to all who have been concerned in securing this important achievement in conservation to know that even though the case above referred to was tried in the "eri- eroy's country" the law was decided to be altogether constitutional, and was not "smashed", as many local sportsmen wished, so they could resume spring shooting of ducks. A move is on foot, the success of which is already guaranteed, to found a memorial in honor of the late Frederick Du Cane God- man, known so favorably to American or- nithologists for his work in collaboration with Osbert Salvin on neotropical birds. The memorial in view will take two forms, a bronze tablet, and a foundation to be known as "The Godman Exploration Fund", and it will be administered in the interests of the British Natural History Museum, at South Kensington, England. This institution, through Mr. W. L. Sclater, Honorary Secre- tary of the Godman Memorial Committee (10, Sloane Court, London, S. W. 1), invites con- tributions of money for this purpose, and gifts from persons interested should be ad- dressed as above. We heartily endorse the above undertaking, in that it will perpetuate the name of o?e who in his lifetime contrib- uted, himself, generously toward the devel- opment of New World ornithology. During the years 1914-16 extensive field work was carried on under the auspices of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoolo- gy in a section across the Sierra Nevada from Snelling to Mono Lake, embracing the Yosemite Valley and adjacent scenic spots much frequented by summer visitors to the region. During this period specimens, pho- tographs and notes were gathered with the purpose of drawing up a general report on the vertebrate animal life of the region. Pre- paration of this report was suspended dur- ing the war; but the work has now been re- sumed. A short supplementary field trip was made during the early summer of the present year by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy I. Storer, of the Museum staff. This trip had as its objective the gathering of additional information, especially on the nesting times and nesting habits of certain of the birds not previously studied to advantage. Camps were established near Snelling and Coulter- ville in the foothills, and in the Yosemite Valley, while shorter stops were made at three stations near the rim of the Valley. The results were quite satisfactory. All of the facts gathered on this and the earlier field trips are being incorporated into a hand manual which will serve as a guide to the identification of the mammals, birds, rep- tiles and amphibians of the region, the places in which the species are to be found, their habits, times and places of breeding, their food, and their general relations in the scheme of nature as exhibited in the Yose- mite region. MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS JWqE.--A meeting of the Cooper Ornitho- logical Club, in affiliation with the Western Society of Naturalists, was held at Pasadena on June 19 and 20, 1919, at the annual meet- ing of the Pacific Division, American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science. Abstracts of papers presented are published in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, July, 1919. Numerous members of both Divisions were in attendance. As this was in the nature of a special meeting, no