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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, President 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances, for dues and contributions, to 



the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



Telephone, Columbus 7327 



T. Gilbert Pearson, President 

 Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President William P. Wharton, Secretary 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Treasurer 



Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Form of Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



On the night of October 30, the first session 

 of the eighteenth annual meeting of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies 

 was held in the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, New York City. The President 

 welcomed the members, friends, and visiting 

 delegates, and reported on some of the larger 

 results of the year's activities. Following 

 this he spoke on bird-protection in Europe 

 and America. His remarks were illustrated 

 with colored slides made from photographs 

 by him and others while on a trip to Europe 

 last spring. Ernest Thompson Seton ad- 

 dressed the meeting on the 'New Era in Wild 

 Life.' He referred to the generally accepted 

 fact that the large wild game animals of the 

 world are due to ultimate extinction, with 

 the exception of those species that may be 

 preserved on the scattered reservations. He 

 also told some wild-bird and animal stories 

 in the entertaining manner for which he has 

 long been famous. 



Dr. Frank M. Chapman spoke on 'Bird 

 Photography Past and Present.' Dr. Chap- 

 man was one of the very first naturalists in 

 this country to teach the lessons of natural 

 history by means of the camera, and his 

 notable achievements in this direction many 



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years ago exerted a large influence in devel- 

 oping the great interest in wild-life photog- 

 raphy which exists today. He showed 

 colored slides made from a number of his 

 early attempts, and some of these dealing 

 with Flamingoes of the Bahama Islands 

 would be regarded as marvelous bird pictures 

 had they been made only yesterday. His 

 address was followed by two reels of new 

 motion pictures by William L. and Irene 

 Finley. These revealed intimate and humor- 

 ous scenes in the life history of the 'Opos- 

 sum,' 'Barn Owl,' Gray Fox,' 'Water Ouzel,' 

 and other forms of western wild life. 



The business meeting was called to order 

 in the Academy Room of the Museum at 10 

 o'clock, on the morning of October 31. The 

 Association was formally welcomed by Dr. 

 Frederick A. Lucas, Director of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. William P. 

 Wharton, and Dr. Frank M. Chapman, whose 

 terms as officers of the Board of Directors had 

 expired, were re-elected for the term of five 

 years. Twenty-nine members of the Ad- 

 visory Board were all re-elected, the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Howard Eaton being 

 filled by the election of George Finley 

 Simmons of Austin. Texas 



