The Nominating Committee then.brought in its slate and the group 
 proceeded to the election of officers. Hicks and Miller were appointed tellers

 and later had volunteer assistants. The first ballot for President, revealing

 that no candidate had a majority, the Chairman asked for the pleasure of
the 
 group as to election by majority or plurality. On motion by Arthur A. Allen

 seconded by Wm. R. Van Dersal it was voted that a plurality should suffice.

 On this basis the following were elected: 
 
      President: Ralph T. King, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
      First Vice-president: Ernest G. Holt, U.S. Soil Conservation Service,

                             Washington, D. C. 
      Second Vice-president: Miles D. Pirnie, Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, 
                              Battle Creek, Mich. 
     All of the nominees for Secretary-Treasurer declined and Arthur A. Allen

 of the Nominating Committee having left the meeting, Aldo Leopold was named
to 
 take his place and the Committee requested to consider further nominations
for 
 the office. The Committee declined to add to the list of nominees, and there

 was an unsupported motion (maker not identified) to close the nominations.

 After a flurry of discussion by several individuals, it was moved by Cottam

 and seconded by Holt that W. L. McAtee, U. S. Biological Survey, Washington,

 D. C., be elected Secretary-Treasurer for the first year. This motion put

 reluctantly by the Chairman was adopted. 
 
     The meeting adjourned sine die upon motion of Green, 
 
     These minutes have been prepared by McAtee from records of the Organiza-

tion Committee, memoranda of the Nominating Committee and Tellers, and notes

of the organization meeting made by a Biological Survey stenographer. 
 
     As a result of suggestions made, papers were circulated at the meeting

for the signatures of those desiring to affiliate for the first year, and
the 
fee provided for in Pommittee Recommendation 6 was paid, at their own initiative,

by 58 persons. 
 
     The next day President King called Leopold, Holt, Stoddard, Pirnie,
and 
McAtee into consultation as to the selection of regional representatives.
The 
sentiment was that so far as possible the appointments should represent 
different branches of wildlife management and research as well as the various

regions. The President appointed Aldo Leopold, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

and Herbert L. Stoddard, Sherwood Plantation, Thomasville, Ga., as Counsellors

and the following as members of the regional Advisory Board: 
 
     N. W. Hosley, Harvard Forest, Petersham, Mass. 
     (Region 1 - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut,

     Rhode Island) 
 
     Gardiner Bump, State Conservation Department, Albany, N. Y. 
     (Region 2 - New York, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania,

     Delaware, Maryland) 
 
     Ross 0. Stevens, Uo S. Soil Conservation Service, Spartanburg, S. Car.

     (Region 3 - West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Soulh Carolina)

 
 
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