Annual Report of the Business Manager
Annual Report of the Business Manager.
The annual report of the business manager of the Cooper Ornithological Club for 1g01 was presented at the annual meeting of the Northern Division on Jan. II. The report opens by commenting upon the present flourishing condition of the Club and recites the causes which have led up to the present conditions. During 1g01 the Northern Division elected 45 and the Southern Division 13 active members, a total of 58 for the year, while 6 members were dropped for non-payment of dues, leaving a net gain of 52. The present active membership is 166; honorary members, 3.
Two publications were issued in the name of the Club, by private donation, during 1901, and the sale of all publications was encouraging. The report urges that members attend promptly to the payment of their dues and that an assistant business manager be appointed to attend to the collection of delinquent dues and subscriptions. It is also recommended that the new ruie requiring written annlications for membership, accompanied bv the first years ’ dues, be enforced, and that apolications not so presented be declared not in order.
The adoption of certain editorial rules, as explained elsewhere, is brought to the attention of the membership with the request that they be followed in preparing manuscript. The financial statement for the year is as follows:-
RECEIPTS.
Received from all sources. . . . . . . . . . . $799.31
EXPENDITURES.
Expended for printing THE CONDOR,
special publications, extras etc. . . . . $602.00
Half-tones and various cuts.. . . . . . . . . 99.00
Postage (letters etc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.18
Stationery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.05
Miscellaneous expense. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45
Mailing magazine during 1901 . . . . . . . . . 7.39
Balance on hand.. . . . . . . 3.24
$799 31
Concerning the Club and its membership the report says: “While it has enrolled apparently the greater majority of the working force of ornithologists in the state, there is a constantly growing and unenrolled number of workers who should he allied with the Club, and who can he secured by proper effort on the part of the present members. There are many secluded nortions of the state in which lone ornithologists live and labor without that assistance which co-operative effort lends. Many of these workers are located in sections from which observations would prove most welcome, and yet it remains for someone to reach and impress on them the beneficial results which will ensue from their uniting with an organized movement. Thus the up-buildink of the Club depends not alone on the scientific work of its members, but to a certain degree on their efforts in effecting as far as passible a complete organization of our working forces.” The report in detail will he printed and mailed to members during the present month.
