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Consists of the presidential papers of Richard C. Banks and Burt L. Monroe; American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) Conservation, and Ornithology and the Law Committees files; general correspondence; and materials pertaining to the 5th and 6th editions of the AOU checklist. Materials include correspondence, reports, meeting agendas and minutes, and manuscript drafts and notes. Also included are materials from the 1997 AOU Annual Meeting, including the circular, program, reports of committee chairs to Council, and Council agendas and minutes from the 1996 meeting.

Box 1 of 3

Presidential Papers of Richard C. Banks, 1994-1996

• AOU Committees, 1995-1996
• 1995 Reports
• Advertising and Sales
• Banding Council
• Bird Collections
• Brewster and Coues Awards
• Bylaws
• Classification and Nomenclature
• Conservation
• Editor, Auk
• Editor, Ornithological Monographs
• Endowment
• Finance
• Historical Records
• Investing Trustees
• 1996 (Annual Meeting)
• Local Arrangements
• Membership
• Memorials
• Nominations
• Nominations: Corresponding and Honorary Fellows
• Nominations of Fellows and Elective Members
• OSNA Oversight
• Pan-American Affairs
• Publications
• Publicity
• Public Responsibility
• Research Awards
• Resolutions
• ROL (Recent Ornithological Literature)
• Scientific Program
• Secretary
• Special Affairs, Gifts and Exchanges
• Special Affairs, Ornithology and the Law
• Special Affairs, Use of Wild Birds
• Special Affairs, Electronic ROL
• Student Awards
• Representative to the AAAS
• Representative to the AIBS
• Representative to the Association of Systematics Collections
• Representative to the Management Committee of the Birds of North America Project
• Representative to the ICBP, U.S. Section
• Representative to the Board of the Ornithological Council
• Representative to the Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences
• Treasurer
• Miscellaneous Correspondence, Second Term
• Miscellaneous Correspondence
• Executive Committee
• 1996 Reports

  AOU Conservation Committee, 1988-1995

• 1994/1995 Business
• AOU Conservation, 1992/1993
• AOU Conservation, 1991/1992
• AOU Conservation Committee, 1990/1991
• AOU Conservation, 1989/1990
• AOU Conservation, 1988/1989
• Auk Conservation Commentary
• Forest Practices, AOUCC Subcommittee

Box 2 of 3

• AK Breeding Birds
• Contamination Problems and Birds
• AOU Hawaii Birds Subcommittee
• Shrike Pop Subcommittee
• AOU Wild bird Trade Subcommittee
• Public Responsibility (AOUCC)
• ICBP (AOUCC)

  AOU Ornithology and the Law Committee, circa 1990-1996

• Ornithology and the Law, General
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• PSH 8 September 1992 Draft: Ornithology and USF&WS: Problems and Solutions
• Banks, R.C.
• Blockstein, D.E.
• Burtt, E.H., Pres. AFO
• Gill, Frank B.
• Hayden, M.
• Hoagland, K.E.
• Hubbard, John P.
• Kessel, B.
• Kiff, L.
• Lanyon, Scott
• Phillips, A.R.
• Turner, J.F.
• Winker, K.
• The Dickerman Case
• The Mathieson Case
• N.C. State Museum Case
• The Peregoine Fune
• The Wheelwright Case
• Anti-Science
• Anti-Science: Birdchat
• AOU Committee: Ornithology and the Law
• ASC Meeting on FWS Regulations
• "Exotic Bird Conservation Act of 1992"
• International Loans, Exchanges, etc.
• Permits
• Proposed new FWS regulation
• Rationales for scientific collecting
• USF&WS LE Attitudes, etc.
• USF&WS Regulations
• Wild Bird Conservation Act

  AOU - General

• Miscellaneous AOU Stuff
• Species Project (relates to Birds of North America Project), 1986-1988
• AOU - ANSP (Birds of North America)
• Allen Letter, 1892
• AOU Checklist, 6th Edition Proofing and Supplements

  Presidential Papers of Burt L. Monroe, circa 1974-1993

• President's Report
• Miscellaneous Correspondence
• Future Meetings
• Council Meeting
• AOU Council Meetings (2 folders)

  AOU Checklists - 5th and 6th Editions

• AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (6th Edition), Agenda-Future, 1978-1982
• AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (6th Edition), Minutes, 1977-1983
• AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (6th Edition), Miscellaneous (Folder 1 of 2)

Box 3 of 3

• AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (6th Edition), Miscellaneous (Folder 2 of 2)
• Banks, Richard C. (Committee members' correspondence with Andrew Kratter)
• Storer, Robert W. (Committee members' correspondence with Andrew Kratter)
• Remsen, V. (Committee members' correspondence with Andrew Kratter)
• Ouellet, Henri (Committee members' correspondence with Andrew Kratter)
• Johnson, Ned K. (Committee members' correspondence with Andrew Kratter)
• Howell, Thomas R. (Committee members' correspondence with Andrew Kratter)
• Miscellaneous (Committee members' correspondence with Andrew Kratter)
• Regional Reviewers (B.L. Monroe Checklist Correspondence, pre-6th Edition), 1980-1985
• Preface (B.L. Monroe Checklist Correspondence, pre-6th Edition), 1980-1985
• Memos, 1990s
• Alaska Meeting
• AOU Numbers
• Memos, General (2 folders)
• Agendae
• Council Reports, Checklist Committee
• Families - Sequence
• Review Journals
• Publishers
• AOU Meeting (115th), 1997 (2 folders)

  From Accession Number 98-062

• Brewster/Coues Awards
• Marbled Murrelet Conservation Assessment
• Ethics and Government Service
• Careers Brochure
• Planning
• 1995 AOU Meeting

  Other Materials

• The Flock, Membership Directory, 1997 (received under separate cover from James Dean in June 1997 - no separate accession number)
• Accession 98-062: Project, meeting, and planning files from Presidency of Brina Kessell.