Proceedings of the Fifty-first Annual Meeting.

The Sixty-first Annual meeting of The Wilson Ornithological Society, and the third jointly with The Cooper Ornithological Society, was held Wednesday, 19 March to Sunday, 23 March 1980, at the La Quinta Royale Motor Inn, Corpus Christi, Texas. The hosts for the meeting were Corpus Christi State University and the Coastal Bend Audubon Society. Dr. Brian R. Chapman chaired the local arrangements committee. Three hundred fifty-eight persons attended the meeting. The meeting opened with an informal social Wednesday night at the motel. On Thursday morning the societies were welcomed by Dr. B. Allen Sugg, President of Corpus Christi State University. Presidents George A. Hall and Dennis Power responded for the Wilson and Cooper Ornithological societies, respectively. After the first business meeting, the paper sessions began. The annual banquet was held in the Sala Grande of the motel on Saturday night. Albert Heiene, Director of the Corpus Christi Museum, gave an excellent banquet address, featuring the humorous side of his work, and that of his colleagues, in science education of the public. At the banquet, First Vice-President A. S. Gaunt announced the following awards: