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our country's richest nature sanctuaries. A bill to allow certain exploitations 

 of the Yellowstone National Park came very near of passage, and another, 

 intended to place the authority for granting water-power rights of the National 

 Parks in the hands of three members of the President's Cabinet, actually passed 

 both Houses of Congress, and President Wilson, in spite of an avalanche 

 of letters and telegrams, signed this measure and it became a law. This statute 

 should most certainly be repealed at the coming session of Congress. Much 

 effort undoubtedly will be required to defeat other Congressional measures 

 for exploitation of National Parks. Attempts to secure such adverse legisla- 

 tion now seem most certain. 



A few months ago a United States Treasury Department official, in recogni- 

 tion of this Association's many years of effort to suppress the traffic in bird's 

 plumage, presented us with a large assortment of bird feathers that had been 

 seized by the customs officers while being smuggled into this country. These 

 goods, at jobbers' prices, were valued at more than $20,000. Exhibits, includ- 

 ing Birds-of-Paradise feathers, both raw and dyed, groups of Aigrette sprays, 

 plumes of the Goura, etc., were assembled and presented by the Association to 

 forty-five museums, distributed through 27 states. These collections are now 

 on exhibition at the following places: 



Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. 



Museum of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 



State Museum, Atlanta, Ga. 



State Museum, Augusta, Maine. 



Museum of Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn. 



Museum of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



Public School Museum, Battle Creek, Mich. 



Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, M<>. 



Arizona Museum, Tucson, Ariz. 



University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. 



Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles, Calif. 



Museum of University of Chicago, Chicago, Ills. 



Museum, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Kent Scientific Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 



Museum, Maryland Academy of Sciences, Baltimore. 



The Joseph Moore Museum, Richmond, Ind. 



Indiana State Department of Conservation, Indianapolis. 



Zoological Museum, Wellesley College, Welleslcy, Mass. 



Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. 



Museum, State Normal School, Emporia, Kans. 



Museum, State Normal School, Winona, Minn. 



Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. 



Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville, Ky. 



Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn. 



Barnum Museum, Tufts College, Mass. 



State Museum, Trenton, N. J. 



Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 



Alabama Museum of Natural History, University, Ala. 



