''Cassinia'' is the journal of the

Delaware Valley Ornithological Club The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club (DVOC) is the one of the oldest ornithology organizations in the United States. Founded in 1890, the club has held regular meetings at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for over 125 years, and ...

(DVOC). The journal is composed of papers relating to the ornithology of eastern

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, and

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

. Seventy three issues have been published to date. Five initial volumes (1890–1900) were published under the name ''Abstract of the Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club'', and then in 1901 the journal was renamed in honor of ornithologist John Cassin.

Editorial History

There have been 22 different editors of ''Cassinia'' since its inception: #

Witmer Stone Witmer Stone (September 22, 1866 – May 24, 1939) was an American ornithologist, botanist, and mammalogist, and was considered one of the last of the “great naturalists.” Stone is remembered principally as an ornithologist. He was president ...

— Vols. 1–14, 1890–1910 # Robert T. Moore — Vols. 15–19, 1911–1915 # Spencer Trotter — Vols. 20–24, 1916–1921 # Wharton Huber — Vol. 25: 1922, 1924 # Philip A. Livingston — Vols. 26–27, 1925–1928; and Vol. 31, 1938–1941 # J. Fletcher Street — Vols. 28–29, 1929–1932 # C. Brooke Worth /

— Vol. 30, 1933–1937 # Ernest A. Choate — Vols. 32–37, 1942–1948 # C. Chandler Ross — Vols. 38–42, 1949–1954 # Lester S. Thomas — Vols. 43–45, 1958–1960 # James K. Meritt — Vols. 46–49, 1961–1966; and Vols. 51–55, 1968–1975 # Albert Conway — Vol. 50, 1966–1967 # Keith C. Richards — Vol. 56, 1976 # Richard C. Bell — Vols. 57–59, 1977–1981 # Edward D. Fingerhood — Vols. 60–62, 1982–1987 # Franklin C. Haas — Vols. 63–66, 1988–1995 # Sandra L. Sherman — Vols. 67–68, 1996–1999 # Colin Campbell — Vol. 69, 2000–2001 # F. Arthur McMorris — Vols. 70–71, 2002–2005 # Dave B. Long — Vols. 72/73–74/75, 2006–2015 # Matthew R. Halley — Vols. 76–77, 2016–2019 #Holger Pflicke — current

External links

''Cassinia'' Web siteDVOC Web site

References

Journals and magazines relating to birding and ornithology Academic journals published in the United States {{zoo-journal-stub