" Vou cannot with a scalpel find the poeV s soul. 

 Nor yet the wild bird's sottg." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this department 

 should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street, Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. 



New Jersey Miss Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford Ave., Plainfield, N.J. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Delaware. Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore place, Wilmington. 



Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul Street, Baltimore. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Florida Mrs. C. F. Dommerich, Maitland. 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern .Ave., Cincinnati. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. George W. Peckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Mrs. J. P. Elmer, 314 West Third street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Texas 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



The week beginning November 12 was expression of opinion as was the previous 



full of significance for bird students. The social intercourse, but one thing was evi- 



meeting of the American Ornithologists' dent, that the usefulness of the societies 



Union, always exhilarating, seemed doubly and their power of retaining the interest 



so owing to the general air of hospitality of members is in direct ratio with their 



that prevailed in Cambridge. Those mem- educational and law-making trend, and 



bers of the Audubon Societies, also mem- that emotionalism in members is a dis- 



bers of the American Ornithologists' tinct disadvantage to a society and bound 



Union, had many opportunities of com- to repel the logical. 



ing in touch at the receptions so graciously Personally, since the recent report of 

 tendered by Mrs. Brewster and Mrs. the American Ornithologists' Union Pro- 

 Frank Bolles, as well as the noontime tective Committee, I have changed my 

 gatherings for luncheon at the Colonial mind as to the necessity of a separate 

 Club. Owing to the combination of the conference of Audubon Societies. The 

 two meetings, American Ornithologists' vast distance to be traveled in order to 

 Union and Aububon Conference, many meet at any one place will always prevent 

 people came to the latter who would anything like a representative gathering 

 otherwise have been absent, so that the from all sections. Rather let two mem- 

 majority of working societies, with the bers, having the qualifications, from each 

 exception of Wisconsin, were represented, society join the American Ornithologists' 

 and it has been decided to endeavor to Union as associate members. Let these 

 make such meetings annual. members meet with the American Orni- 



The conference itself was not perhaps thologists' Union Protective Committee 



so satisfactory in bringing forth a general annually as auxiliaries, give their experi- 



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