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 ANNUAL MEETING 



The public session of the Eleventh 

 Annual Meeting of the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies was held in the 

 main lecture-hall of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York City, on 

 the evening of October 25, 1915. Several 

 hundred people gathered on this occasion 

 to listen to a brief address by T. Gilbert 

 Pearson, followed by three reels of moving- 

 picture films exhibited for the first time, 

 and described by Herbert K. Job, who is 

 in charge of the Association's Depart- 

 ment of Applied Ornithology. These 

 films were made by Mr. Job during the 

 past summer, chiefly on the Reservations 

 of the Audubon Association and the Gov- 

 ernment in Florida and Louisiana. The 

 audience showed much interest, and the 

 films were highly praised by the experi- 

 enced bird-photographers present. 



The business meeting was held at 10 

 o'clock on the morning of October 26. 

 The reports of the Secretary, Treasurer, 

 and Auditing Committee were presented, 

 approved, and adopted. Edward H. 

 Forbush presented the report of Winthrop 

 Packard, Massachusetts agent, and also 

 enlarged on the Audubon work in his 

 territory the past year. The report of 

 Dr. Eugene Swope was read by Prof. 

 H. L. Madison of Providence, who also 

 gave an account of the advancement of 



bird-protective matters in Rhode Island. 

 Reports were presented by Arthur H. 

 Norton of Maine, and by Mrs. Mary S. 

 Sage, the special school-lecturer recently 

 added to the staff of field-agents. Mrs. 

 Mabel Osgood Wright greatly interested 

 the meeting by telling of experiments with 

 sparrow-traps carried on at Birdcraft 

 Sanctuary in Fairfield, Connecticut. Addi- 

 tional instances showing that many desira- 

 ble species are caught in traps along with 

 the English Sparrows, were furnished by 

 Wilbur F. Smith. By resolution the mem- 

 bers asked Mrs. Wright to prepare a circu- 

 lar of warning in reference to the handling 

 of sparrow-traps, with the purpose of the 

 Association publishing it for distribution. 

 Ernest Harold Baynes spoke on the sub- 

 ject of organizing bird-clubs and the rela- 

 tion they should bear to the Association; 

 and Miss Katharine Minahan gave an 

 account of the manner in which the Bird- 

 Masque Sanctuary under her direction is 

 being received. 



The following directors were elected: 

 Dr. Frederick A. Lucas, T. Gilbert Pear- 

 son, Ernest Harold Baynes, and William P. 

 Wharton. The Advisory Board of thirty 

 members was reelected, with the exception 

 of three, for whose names those of Donald 

 Scott, Dr. Joseph Grinnell, and George 

 Batten were substituted. 



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