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 110 Palmer, Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the A. 0. U. [j a u n k THE THIRTY-SEVENTH STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. BY T. S. PALMER. The Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the American Orni- thologists' Union was held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, November 10-13, 1919. On account of the epidemic of influenza which prevailed in 1918, this meeting was the first public one held for two years and the first one since the war. Naturally the attendance was above the average and the program more extended than usual — in fact the meeting continued beyond the formal sessions and with the excursions occupied most of the week. Attendance. The total attendance of Fellows, Members, Asso- ciates and visitors was about 125. The Fellows present numbered 28, as many as attended the New York meeting of 1913 and the largest number at any meeting in the history of the Union. Among those present were three of the nine surviving Founders, Dr. J. A. Allen, Chas. F. Batchelder, and Dr. A. K. Fisher and ten members elected at the first meeting in 1883: seven Fellows; Prof. W. B. Barrows, Ruthven Deane, Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Dr. Geo. Bird Grinnell, Dr. T. S. Roberts, John H. Sage, and W. E. Saunders; two Members, E. T. Seton and C. H. Townsend; and one Associate; H. K. Coale. The Union had the unusual pleasure of entertaining one of its Honorary Fellows, William Lutley Sclater, of London, well known as the editor of 'The Ibis' and the author of many important publications on ornithology. Thirty-five years ago the Union had the pleasure of greeting Mr. Sclater's father, the late Dr. P. L. Sclater, who with the late Howard Saunders was visiting America and attended the second meeting in New York, in 1884. Among others who came from a distance were two representatives from the region west of the Mississippi River, Dr. T. S. Roberts of Minnesota and H. S. Swarth from California; four from Canada,