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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THE AMERICAS UliSI'LllULUUlSTS' L'MUX 477 is clix'ted hv tlic council II all the otlic'tT some of tliciii I tunes, president. miinher ( tile lil'.-t vears and tilled the position of editor for twenty- eight years. Mr. Jolin H. Sajie, the ;)i'c>cnl ;)i-esi- deiit. \va> eli'cied in l!tlT. after havinii- servi'd as secretary for t wen ty - eight years. Two of the treasurers. Mr. William Dutcher and Dr. J o n a t h a n Dwight, have served sixteen and (ifteen years re spec t i vely. Thus the general policy 'of the Union has heen maintained on a singularly uni- form and con- servative hasis. W (» M !•: X A s wou kers in Orxitiiology .\ltliongli elected anmuilK hren I'ci'lccteil a Dr. -I. .\. .Mien, served for seven
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Dr. .loel Asai>li At ^Membership in the Union is open to women on the .same terms as nuMi. Sex has been no bar to election, ami iiiei'i- torious work In' women has always re- ceived prompt recognition. More than 140 women are now on the rolls, four of whom have been elected ^lembers. and one a Corresponding Fellow. They take part in the annual meetings and frequently present papers containing im))ortant original observations, it i> hardly to be expected that women will have the same active interest as men in collecting binls in the field, but several Ins eightieth birthday, served seven years as the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union, and twenty-eight years as editor of its pub- lications. He is author of nearly one thousand papers and reviews on ornithology, many bio- graphical sketches of ornithologists, and a series of papers on nomenclature, besides many publica- tions on mammals and other subjects. This photo- graph was taken in 1885 when he became cura- tor of ornithologj' and mammalogj' in the American Museum of Natural History, with which institu- tion the A. O. U. has always been very closely associated (d" the nienilxM's do not hesitate to ven- ture into the wilds in (;uest of speci- niciis and data when o;iporluinlv oll'ers. Di-. I'jnilia Snethlage, a ('orrt'sponding I'^ellow who is director (d' the Para Mu- seum in Brazil, has made several expeditions into the tropical for- ests of the Ama- zon region, and published the sci- entific results of her trips. Miss Annie ^f. Alex- andei', founder of the Museum of Vertebrate Zool- ogy at Berkeley, California, has organized and personally con- ducted several expeditions to Alaska and to remote sections of (Vdifornia. ^Irs. Florence ^Merriain Bailey has accom))anie(l her husl)and on many field trips in the West and has tluis col- lected material foj- her well- known Iliindhook of I he Bivfh of ilie Wcslcni I'lilfril Shilcs. her recent papers on the birds of the Glacier Xa- tional Park, and other publications on the hii'ds of the West. Mrs. Bailey was the first woman elected to the Union and for two years was the only femi- nine member. Tn several lines of work women are especially fitted not only to inak'e suh- .-tantial contributions to knowledge but to adxance the cause of ornithology. In making oliservations on habits and nii- gi'ation. in ))reseiiting the subject in who has just celebrated

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