WHEREAS, the United States National Museum and its staff members comprising the local committee on arrangements have made the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in session at Washington, D.C., June 21-25, 1959, especially significant by providing a unique historical brochure, a banquet of import to mammalogists, an extensive program for wives and children of members and, by all their diligent efforts and untiring hospitality, have made the members of the Society feel like honored guests;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Society extends its sincere thanks and appreciation to the United States National Museum and to the Fish and Wildlife Service, and especially to Miss Viola S. Schantz, General Chairman, and to the Chairmen of the local committee and to the committee members for their efforts which have resulted in making the 39th Annual Meeting a singularly successful one.