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 96 THE CONDOR Vol. XIV THE CONDOll, A Magazine of estern Ornithology Published Be-Monthly by the Cooper Ornitholoffical Club J. GRINNELL, Editer. Berkeloy. C&llfomia HARRY S. SWARTH. Aoooci&to Editor J. EVGENE LAW } Bu,inel ManallOtS W. L CBAMBKS Hillywild, Celiflrnle:' Published March 15,'1914 SUBSCIklPTION RATES Oho Dollar and Fifty Cents per Your in the United States, Canada, Mexico and U.S. Colonies, payable in advance Thirty Coals the single copy. Oho Doller and Soventy-five Cones per Year in all other countries in the International Postal Union. Claims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made within thirty days of date of issue. Subscrlpiioas and [;xcl&ugos should be sent to the Business Manager. Memusceipts /or publieation, and Books and Papers for revlow, should be sent to the Editor. Advortisinf[ Ratos on application. EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS The Business Managers of the Cooper Club, Messrs. Chambers and Law, have submitted to the two Divisions their financial statement for the year 1913. This statement includes itemized receipts and expenditures on both Ave[anna and Condor accounts, an inventory. of Cooper Club property, and a tinal appeal for continued ahd increased support on the part of all interested in the growth of western orni- thology. The following abbreviation from this report will give an idea of the amount of work which now devolves upon our Business Managers, but which is essential to handling the Club's. publications as they are now ap- pearing. Balance in Bank January 2, 1913 ..... $ 181.54 Dues received during 1913 ........... 844.09 Subscriptions during 1913 ............ 224.36 Advertisements ..................... 46.00 Donations .......................... 238.69 Sale of Avifaunas ................... 52.75 Sale of back Condors ............... 83.01 Total Receipts ................... $1670.44 Printing of Condor .................. $ 646.25 Engraver's bill ....................... 133.14 Northern Division expenses .......... 21.75 Southern Division expenses .......... 27.98 On account conservation of game .... 37.03 Postage ............................. 84.55 Purchase of back Condors .......... 11.50 On Avifauna account ................. 12.56 Sundry expenses ..................... 47.32 Total Expenditures .............. $1022.08 Balance on hand, January 2, 1914 .... $ 648.36 From this deduct $291.44, in Avifauna ac- count, which leaves $356.92; then add $105.35 for 1912 bills paid during 1913, making $462.27, the total amount in Condor fund. From this deduct the' amount of advance dues and sub- scriptions ($96.10), and 1913 bills payable ($278.69), and there is left a net balance, or "profit" on the Condor, of $87.48. The printing of volume XV of the Condor cost $60.73 more than'volume XI.V, while $3.68 less was spent upon cuts. An edition of 1000 copies of each issue of the Condor was printed. Avifauna number 10, Swarth's "Distributional List of Arizona Birds", is now in press. COMMUNICATION REVIEWS AND JUST CRITICISM Editor THE CoNo: I am a far-off, perhaps unheard of--:-so t'o speak--member of the Cooper Club; but it is my Club, .and to me it means more than any of the other organizations of its kind of which I am a member--all because eight of the best years of my life were spent in the Land of the Golden West. Just what my rights as a member of the Cooper Club may be to criticise the reviews in its Organ, THE CoN- ,o, 1 do not stop to ask; but as a member of Society, 'in general, and especially as a member of that small lorti9n of supposed Goodfellows, banded together under the name of Nature Students, I have the moral right to ask re- garding that which, to me, seems undesirable, and, especially so, when that same is printed matter which goes forth to the world and be- comes a living record. Does that portion of the review r. egarding Bruce Horsfall's plate of the Catbird, signc0 W. L. D., page 236, volume 15, November issue of THE Com)o, sound like brotherly love? Has it any of that milk of human kind- ness, as such, making THe; CoN)O a medium of good fellowship ? I know neither Mr. Hotsfall nor W. L. D., only as they have come on record in print; but even if all that is said be true, could it not have been said in a kind way? Why not a plain, honest statement, even though cruel in its frankness, instead of a flippant thrust carry- ini with it a personal tang? Why could it not have been a good clean review, such as the one given of The Birds of Virginia? For that was, indeed, most necessary and just. There is no stimulus to my life's work like study and communion with nature. From the. fundamentals to the last integral parts of de- sign,' my profession is'a logical sequence along lines of evolution, based on the primal laws of creation. With this knowledge, I have learn- ed to feel that all who turn to nature seriously, do, of necessity, set themselves apart from the proletaire, are bigger and better in thought, more susceptible of sympathy, no matter what their walk in life. Then, if so, is Mr. Hors- fall one to be encouraged in the right way, by