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Bird - Lore 



NEW SUSTAINING 



Loy, L. K. 



McCoy, Mrs. W. T. 



McDowell, Martha A. 



Mcintosh, Franklin Gray 



Marshall, H. L., Jr. 



Matuszak, Roman 



Moseley, E. L. 



Nature Study Club of Pittsburgh 



Neilson, Winthrop C, Jr. 



Norris, Miss Fanny 



Parker, Mrs. Harry 1). 



Peck, Francis \V. 



Perkins, Mabel H. 



Perry, Mrs. Martha D. 



Pike, Mrs. F. B. 



Porter, Frances R. 



Pratt, Mrs. Waldo S. 



Prentica, Mrs. S. O. 



Primm, Master Timon 



Reed, Mrs. George W. 



Rice, Mrs. Phillip 



Richards, Mrs. R. L. 



MEMBERS, continued 



Sand Hill Bird Club 

 Schmidt, Henry 

 Schultz, Ernst H. 

 Smith, Kirby 

 Smithman, J. B. 

 Snowdon, Geo. II. 

 Somerville, William 

 Spear, H. M. 

 Stevenson, Henry Hoyt 

 Stiles, Mrs. Mary I. 

 Thomas, Mrs. George C. 

 Thompson, A. A. 

 Town, Milton L. 

 Trask, Mrs. James D. 

 Tucker, Mrs. Alandon 

 Twitchell, Herbert F. 

 Underwood, Mrs. C. J. 

 Wadsworth, Eugene Delano 

 Wilson Miss Celia Sibley 

 Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. R. 1 

 Women's Contemporary Club 

 Woodward, S. B. 



TO CORRECT A GREAT EVIL 



The National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, together with other organizations 

 and individuals, has for some time been 

 calling the attention of the public to in- 

 stances of fearful destruction to water bird- 

 life caused by oil-burning and oil-carrying 

 vessels pouring oil and oil-soaked bilge water 

 into our harbors along the coast. At times 

 immense numbers of wild fowl have been 

 destroyed in this manner. Especially to 

 those who are familiar with this growing evil 

 will it be of interest to know that at last a 

 movement has been started in Congress to 

 check this destructive agency. 



On January 3, 1922, Congressman Hicks 

 introduced into the House of Representatives 

 a joint resolution (H. J. Res. 247) authorizing 



and requesting the President of the United 

 States to call an international conference of 

 maiitime nations to consider the advisability 

 of entering into an agreement to control the 

 pollution of the navigable waters of the world 

 on the part of oil-burning and oil-carrying 

 vessels through the dumping into said waters 

 of oil waste, fuel oil, oil sludge, oil slop, tar 

 residue, and other water ballast impregnated 

 with oil, and the resolution was referred to 

 tlie Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of 

 Representatives. This is a step in the right 

 direction toward an effective control of what 

 is becoming a very serious menace not only 

 to our migrator)' wild fowl, but to other 

 forms of life in the sea and bays and lower 

 courses of rivers. 



