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under control of a cooptative board of 3 directors, of whom two at 

 least must be members of the Academy. Original board appointed 

 by the trust deed. 



Barnard medal for meritorious service to science, see Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals. 



Address. 525 Manhattan Avenue, New York City, N. Y. Chairman: 



William Dutcher. 

 History. A federation of the State Audubon societies ; formed in 1900-01 



under the name of the National Committee of Audubon Societies of 



America. Incorporated in 1905 under present name. 



Ref.: History of the Audubon movement. (In Bird-lore, v. 7, p. 45-57, Jan.- 

 Feb., 1905). 



Publications. 



The official organ of the Audubon societies is BIRD-LORE, pub. bimonthly 

 by the Macmillan Company at Harrisburg, Pa. 



Price: $i a year. 



The reports of the Association are issued as separates from this periodical. 



Also Special leaflets. 



National Association of Cotton Manufacturers 6 . 



Address. 45 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. Secretary : C. J. H. Woodbury. 



History. Founded Apr. 20, 1865, under the name New England Cotton 

 Manufacturers' Association, as successor to the Hampden County 

 Cotton Manufacturers' Association (organized 1856) ; incorporated Dec. 

 i, 1894; present name adopted 1906. 



Object. To encourage scientific investigation and experiments pertaining to the 

 manufacture of cotton ; to collect and impart information relating to this indus- 

 try; to promote social intercourse among its members, and to establish and 

 maintain a library on textiles. 



Meetings. Annual meeting held generally in Boston on the last Wednesday and 

 Thursday of April. Semi-annual meeting on two days late in September or early 

 in October. 



Membership. 586 active (entrance fee, $10; annual assessment, about $5, not to 



The Audubon magazine, of which 2 vols. were published, Jan. i887-Dec. 1888, 

 was the organ of an earlier national Audubon Society, founded 1886, but practically 

 extinct when the organization of the State societies began in 1896. 



6 The National association of cotton manufacturers and planters, organized Apr. 

 29, 1868 at New York City, appears to have had only a brief existence. Publ.: Pro- 

 ceedings of a convention . . . for the purpose of organizing the . . . association . . . 

 and of the ist meeting of the government of the association. Boston, 1868. 8. 

 Appendix to ist report of Proceedings. Boston, 1868. 8. Proceedings of the 1st 

 annual meeting . . . held in New York, June 30, 1869. Boston, 1869. 8. 



