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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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478 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL popular form, in teaching, and in arous- ing an interest in birds among the younger generation, they have already accomplished invaluable work. The ob- servations of Miss A. K. Sherman and Mrs. Irene G. Wheelock, the works of Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller and Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright need only be mentioned as illustrations, while the interest which Mrs. Russell Sage has shown in the cause of popular educa- tion and bird protection has made pos- sible results accomplished by few other persons either in this country or abroad. Meetings and Field Journeys of THE American Ornithologists' Union Eegular meetings are held annually, usually in November, and continue
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John Hall Sage, president of the American Ornithologists' Union, today.—Prior to becom- ing president of the Ornithologists' Union he served as secretary of the organization for twenty- eight years. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the Biological Society of Washington. In collaboration with Dr. L. B. Bishop he published The Birds of Connecticut, in 1913. (Half tone from a photograph taken in 1918) four or five days. The first day is de- voted to the transaction of business and the next three days to public sessions for the presentation of scientific papers. An informal dinner is usually arranged for one of the evenings, and the fifth day is devoted to an excursion or a visit to some zoological garden, museum, or other point of ornithological interest. The excursions have included, besides zoological gardens, several points of his- toric or scientific interest such as Au- dubon's home, Bartram's garden, "and the Xew Jersey pine barrens near Phila- delphia; the I^ew York Aquarium and the Brooklyn Museum; trips to Con- cord, the Thayer Museum at Lancas- ter, and the Ipswich sand dunes from Cambridge; and the headquarters of the Biologists' Field Club at Plummer Island in the Potomac near Washing- ton. As a matter of convenience, meet- ings are usually held in the four cities which have large public museums and near which most of the members are located, namely, Cambridge, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. Local scientific societies such as the Xuttall Ornithological Club of Cambridge, the Linna'an Society of New York, the Del- aware Valley Ornithological Club, and the Biological Society of Washington usually take part in entertaining the members. On two • occasions, in May, 1903, and May, 1915, the Union crossed the continent to meet in San Francisco with the Cooper Ornithological Club. On the former occasion a week was spent en route and stops were made at Santa Fe, New Mexico; in the Painted Desert, and at the Grand Caiion in Ari- zona ; and in the Mohave Desert, and at Los Angeles in southern California. Side trips were also made to Monterey, the Farallon Islands, Los Banos, and the Yosemite Valley, thus affording most favorable opportunities for com- paring the fauna and flora of several widely different regions. On the latter occasion stops were made at the Grand

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