Cije Butrubon Societies; 



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 

 Frederic 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 

 $1,000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



THE GROWTH OF THE JUNIOR WORK 



The Secretary of this Association re- 

 marked, last summer, in his report upon 

 the very gratifying progress of the Junior 

 Audubon work during the previous season, 

 that its influence for good was far wider 

 than the limits of bird-protection alone. 



"Beyond doubt," the report said, "noth- 

 ing is so great a problem, or one whose 

 solution is so important to the future pros- 

 perity and peace of the country, as the 

 rescue of the children of the land from evil 

 influences, and the diversion of their rest- 

 less activity and curiosity into safe and 

 beneficent channels. To clo this, their in- 

 terest must be e.xcited in something which 

 will appeal to their minds as amusing, and 

 at the same time really worth while. 



"The pursuit of the study of natural 

 history offers just these attractions, and 

 to a large extent appeals to girls as well as 

 to boys. No better place to begin this 

 study exists than in watching the activities 

 of birds, which invite the interest of all 

 children by their pretty ways, sweet voices, 

 and domestic habits. In respect to no 

 other class of animals is sentiment so 

 mingled with science as here; and, when 

 one needs to cultivate in a young mind a 

 sense of the duty of consideration for 

 animals, the bird offers the best possible 

 point of beginning. 



"These thoughts would arise first to the 

 mind of the moralist and social economist 

 as he looked at the astounding success of 

 the Junior Audubon movement displayed 

 by the statistics published in these pages, 



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— and mayhap that is really the important 

 thing that has been accomplished. Tt 

 may be that these tens of thousands of 

 children, poring over their leaflets, mem- 

 orizing the various birds pictured, while 

 happily reproducing their portraits with 

 their crayons, and exercising their in- 

 genuity in pleasant rivalry, as they con- 

 trive their bird-lodges and set them in 

 cautiously chosen places, are acquiring, 

 quite unknowingly, powers and qualities 

 that will be of far greater value to them 

 in the future than will their store of orni- 

 thology." 



Such thoughts, strengthened by re- 

 newed testimony, continue to please and 

 encourage the officers and directors of the 

 National Association, and the men and 

 women who stand with them behind the 

 movement, as they watch its continued 

 growth. And this growth has been not 

 only continuous, but astonishingly rapid. 

 Each new class formed seems quickly to 

 become the center of a group of new classes, 

 as a tree seeds the ground about it until 

 a grove springs up. The development of 

 interest and results — in this case identical 

 — is truly astonishing. From its begin- 

 ning in the southern states, in 1910, under 

 Mrs. Sage's benevolence, to the close of the 

 present season, only six years of this work 

 have passed; yet the totals have grown 

 from ten thousand pupils enrolled in one 



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