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urge an increased appropriation for the Survey, in order that it may more rapidly 

 continue its important work. 



RESULTS ACHIEVED IN 1907 



Special Agents. — It is always a dilTicult matter to place in concrete form 

 successes achieved in a given time by a moral movement, as many of them are 

 in some degree intangible. However, so much actual progress has been made 

 during the past year that it will be hard in the future to keep up the same ratio 

 of progress. The greatest gain of the year has been the enlargement of the lield 

 staff of the Association. Before the present year, our able and earnest Secretary, 

 Mr. Pearson, did a large part of the organization work; in fact, almost his entire 

 time was occupied this way. It cannot be questioned that the very best results 

 are to be obtained by the employment of trained men and women to carry to 

 the public the propaganda of wild-bird and animal protection. It is absolutely 

 necessary that the organizer should have a good knowledge of birds and animals, 

 especially in respect to their economic relations to the human race; moreover, 

 he or she must be an enthusiast whose whole mind and powers are engrossed 

 in devotion to the Society and its work. Such qualities are hard to find, but we 

 know that this Association has found them, or the results secured by the field 

 staff would not have been as great as they are. A brief review is in order : 



Mr. Pearson, in addition to the valuable work he did in his home state, 

 North Carolina, where he is the moving spirit of the Audubon Society, con- 

 ducted an exploration along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, securing 

 much needed information regarding the birds of that section. He secured the 

 passage of an act in the legislature of South Carolina conferring upon the 

 Audubon Society the powers and duties of a Game Commission; he conducted 

 an investigation with a view of suppressing cage-bird traffic in its last stronghold; 

 he visited a number of Audubon Societies in the western states, giving them 

 encouragement and advice, while on a trip to the Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, 

 where he attended one of the most important meetings held during the year — the 

 biennial session of the National Association of State Game Wardens and Com- 

 missioners. It is of vital importance that this Association have the closest affilia- 

 tion with all state game officials, as the objects sought by each are identical. 

 He did excellent and valuable service in behalf of the Biological Survey at the 

 last session of Congress, and, finally, was instrumental in securing the passage 

 of resolutions at the International Conference of Cotton Growers, in Atlanta, 

 Ga., demanding the protection of wild birds, and calling on Congress to continue 

 the Biological Survey with increased appropriations, in order that it may more 

 rapidly determine the economic relations of wild birds to agriculture. 



Air. Edward Howe Forbush, ornithologist of the Massachusetts Board 

 of Agriculture, and now in charge of Audubon interests in the New England 

 States for this Association, accomplished results of splendid proportions. He 



