Cl)e ^uDubon Societies 



" Y'ou cannot tvilh a scalpel find the poet's soul, 

 yof yet the wild bird's song." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of tlie 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 



Maine A. H. Norton, Westbrook. 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchki^der, Manchester. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



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



Rhode Island Miss Harriet C. Richards, 48 Lloyd ave.. Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Mlss Emma H. Lock wood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. 



New Jersey Miss Julia Scriener, 510 E. Front street, Plainfield, N.J. 



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



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



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



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 2212 R street, Washington. 



Vireinia Mrs. Frederick E. Town, Glencarlyn. 



North Carolina T. Gilbert Pearson, Greensboro. 



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



Florida Mrs. L Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Missouri Aigist Reese, 2516 North Fourteenth street, St. Louis. 



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



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 20S West street, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaits, 260 Langdon street, Madison. 



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St Paul. 



Wyoming Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Back to First Principles ''^^ 'really nice' elect to do, must sooner 



or later be followed by hot polloi, and 



The first tenet of the Audubon movement turned our attention to the educational side 



was the suppression of the use of bird of bird protection, i. e., teaching the 



plumage for millinery purposes. "So long masses to identify birds, to know their 



as women wear any but Ostrich feathers habits and economic value, and so, logi- 



on their hats, so long will birds be killed cally, come to desire of their own volition to 



to supply them " — ranged the protest in turn give birds the complete protection that is 



from every society that joined the ranks. the end and aim of our work. 



After we had preached and talked this for Not to bore people and to render the 



several years, some of us began to feel that pledge suitable for the sterner sex, we said 



an impression had been made once and for less and less about birds on bonnets and ap- 



ali, and that it was no longer necessary to pealed more to the love of outdoor life to 



dwell so forcibly upon this phase of the gain our ends. 



work; people were getting bored, and we As a direct result, laws have been passed 



heard on all sides that the really nice people in many states curbing and stopping the 



were at least giving up the wearing of traffic in native birds and, carried by the 



egrets and the plumage of our native birds. Abbot Thayer fund, the cry of "Save the 



We therefore flattered ourselves that what Gulls and Terns" has echoed along the en- 



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