JuLy, t9o31 THE CONDOR The A. O. U. then passed resolutions thanking the Cooper Club, the Acad- emy of Sciences and the Committee on Arrangements, after which the meeting ad- journed. In a special meeting the Cooper Club passed resolutions of thanks to the Academy and Mr. Loomis, for the generous entertainment'extended to members o! the Club. After luncheon, on the invitation of President Jordan, the meeting visited Stanford University in a body. The following members of the A. O. U. froln the east were in attendance; J. A. Allen, F. E. L. Beal, Louis B Bishop, H. C. Bumpus, F. M. Chapman, J. L. Childs, Mrs. E. B. Davenport, J. Dwight, Jr., J. H. Fleming, Louis A. Fuertes, C. Hart Merriam, T. S. Palmer, Otto Widmann. Of the Cooper Club there were thirty-three members present. E take pleasu?re in resuming our series of portraits with that of Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S.A. Dr. Mearns is well known to westerners thru his connection with the Mexican Boundary Survey, and by his numerous articles on western ornithology and mammalogy. The Doctor began his bird stu- dies in the east, but has worked pretty much Over the far west, in line of duty, particularly in the arid regions of the southwest, adjacent to our National Boundary. Dr. Mearns' first paper was on The Birds of the Hudson Highlands, published in the Bulletin of the Essex Institute (i878-79). The greater number Of his later articles have appeared in The A?ek and in the Proceedings of the U.S. .National Museum.
