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 98 THE CON,DOR Vol. XV A com,munication from the secreta_ry of the Pacific Association of Scientific Societies was read, relative to the following p9ints: (1) A request to vote upon the proposed admission of the Puget Sound Section of the American Chemical Society into the Association. (An- swered affirmatively.) (2) As to whether the Cooper Club planned to hold a meeting at Berkeley in April, as part of the annual meeting of the Association. (Yes.) (3) A query as to the present membership of the Cooper Club. (4) A notice that the annual dues of the Club were now payable. In the absence of Mr. Taylor, chairman of the committee on the. conservation of wild life, H. C. Bryant gave a short verbal report of the recent activities of the committee. Owing to the impossibility of the present incumbent continuing to act as secretary of the Northern Division, his name was with- drawn from nomination and the name o! Tracy I. Stmer substituted. The election of officers for 1913 gave the following results: President, H. W. Carriger; Vice-President, H. C. Bryant; Secretary, T. I. Storer. Business being disposed of, the remainder of the evening was devoted to a paper by A. C. Chandler, on "Experiences with Tamed Wild Birds". Adjourned.--H. S. SwxR'H, Secretary. FERuxY.--The regular monthiy meeting of the Northern Division of the Cooper Orni- thological Club was held at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, on February 20, 1913, with President Carriger in the chair. The following members were pres- ent: Mrs. Grinnell, Miss Atsatt, Messrs. Bry- ant, Carriger, Chandler, Grinnell, Shelton, A. G. Smith, Stock, Stone, Storer, and Taylor. Mrs. Taylor, and the Misses Bruckmann, Dodge, and Little were present as visitors. The minutes of the January meeting were read and approved and the minutes of the Southern Division for January were read. Mr. E. E. Everett of Ventura, California, was elected to 'membership. The following applications for membership were presented: Mabel C. Gage, Worcester, Mass., and Thomas Trenor, 1501 Scott St., San Fran- cisco, California, proposed by 'J. Grinnell; Claus Johan Murie, and Asa Sleeth, both of Portland, Oregon, proposed by Stanley G. Jewett, and John B. Perrin, Tucson, Ariz., proposed by A. B. Howell. Mr. Joseph Grinnell gave a brief summary of the repor t of the Business Managers of the Club for 1912. The report was heartily approved. Mr. W. P. Taylor, Chairman of the Com- mittee on the Conservation of Wild Life, then introduced the following resolutions: Resolved: that the Northern Division oi the Cooper Ornithological Club, realizing that California is doomed 'to become practically birdless and gameless in 'ten years unless present measures regulating wild life are en- forced and added to, does hereby request the members of the California State Legislature of 1913 to pass, without amendment, the Flint-Cary bill to prohibit the sale of wild game, as being a remedial measure which would be in the interest of every citizen of the State of California, and which would be constitutional and effective. Resolved: that 'the Northern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club, realizing the tremendous importance of rigorous protection of non-game birds, does hereby urge that no measure be passed removing protection from any of the non-game birds in any section of the State, particularly the robin, .meadow- lark, and blackbird. Mr. Taylor moved that the foregoing reso- lutions be spread upon the minutes of the meeting and that copies be sent to each mem- ber of the Committees on Fish and Game of both houses of the Legislature, and to the Secretary of the Southern Division, accom- panied in each case by a letter of transmittal from the Secretary, and that the Southern Division be asked to adopt similar resolu- tions and to transmit them in a similar man- ner. The motion was carried. Mr. Taylor moved that it be declared the sense of the meeting that the urgency of the situation as regards conservation demands that each individual present write letters to his Senator and Assemblyman, strongly urg- ing the passage of the Flint-Cary bill to pro- hibit the sale of game, and the defeat of all measures designed to remove protection from any of the non-game birds, especially the rob- in, meadowlark, and blackbird. Mr. Taylor further reported that a "West- ern Wild Life Call" was issued on Februarzv 7th, and that .now practically the whole edi- tion of 15,000 copies has been distributed. Progress along the whole line of game con- servation was reported. The State of Ore- gon has passed a no-sale bill so that Califor- nia is now surrounded on all sides by no- sale territory. A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. H. S. Swarth for his services to the club in the position of Secretary of the Northern Divi- sion. Business of the evening being disposert of, Mr. Alfred Shelton read a paper entitled "Woodpecker Notes" the material for which was gathered in Sonoma County during a res- idence of several years. After discussion of the paper the meeting adjourned.--Ttxc 1. S'o,m, Secretary.