EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary 



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

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



William Dutcher, President 

 Fr£D£kic a. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 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 

 Si, 000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



FLORIDA STILL ASLEEP 



L O R I D A continues 

 to be the chief 

 slaughter-ground for 

 Egrets in the United 

 Am I States. As long as 



wealthy people go 

 every winter and 

 spring to Palm Beach 

 and Miami, and are 

 willing to pay exor- 

 bitant prices for 

 locally collected 

 "aigrettes," just so 

 long the Seminole 

 Indians of the Ever- 

 glades, and the "poor whites" who haunt 

 the Big Cypress, will kill the birds for the 

 nine dollars that the plumes of each bird 

 will bring. The Association's wardens 

 have had wonderful success in guarding 

 the nesting-colonies against raids, but if 

 they were withdrawn for a single season the 

 accumulated results of years of protection 

 would he swept away by the plume-hunters, 

 who would instantly rush to the easy 

 feast of slaughter waiting for them. This 

 has been demonstrated in more than one 

 instance when, through lack of funds to 

 pay a guard, we have been forced to 

 abandon a colony to its fate. Therefore 

 we now call upon our members and friends 



for contributions for this work during the 

 coming year, and trust the response will 

 be fully as generous as heretofore. 



We get no help from Florida in this 

 work. That state has no warden-system, 

 and therefore does virtually nothing to 

 conserve its wild life. Educational work 

 among the inhabitants of the state has had 

 little effect, for the men of the woods 

 shoot the birds when opportunity offers, 

 and the be-diamonded denizens of the 

 cities have shown a greater disposition to 

 make money than to aid in conserving 

 the state's natural resources — which per- 

 haps is natural. The funds that the 

 National Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties have expended in the laudable and 

 highly humane effort of saving the Egrets 

 in Florida are not furnished by the people 

 of Florida. I can count on the fingers of 

 one hand the names of all the men and 

 women in that state who contribute a 

 dollar to this work. And so we cannot 

 look there for the sinews of war for our 

 Egret campaign in 1916, but, as usual, 

 must turn to the New England school- 

 teacher, the New York business-man, and 

 others of our friends who dwell north of the 

 Potomac River. In this work we can 

 count, to some extent, on the cooperation 

 of the state authorities of Georgia, South 



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