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good to be accomplished by the passage 

 of the treaty; and I trust that the 

 opportunity will not be allowed to pass 

 by members of Audubon Societies to 

 impress upon their friends the great 

 necessity for the earliest possible action 

 by Canada in this matter. A summary of 

 what has been accomplished may be of 

 interest: 



"On July 2, 1913, the United States 

 Senate adopted the McLean resolution, 

 authorizing the President to propose to 

 other countries the negotiation of a con- 

 vention for the protection and preserva- 

 tion of birds. The treaty was drawn in 

 tentative form and submitted by the United 

 States Department of State to the British 

 Ambassador in March, 1914. With the 

 approval of the British Foreign Office, the 

 Ambassador forwarded the documents to 

 the Dominion Government, which con- 

 sulted the various Provincial Govern- 

 ments with regard to their attitude to- 

 ward the proposed treaty. 



"The matter was favorably received in 

 most of the provinces, but not all had 

 acted at the time that war was declared. 

 If favorable action is taken by the pro- 

 vinces, it is assumed that the treaty will, in 

 due course, be returned to the United 

 States Secretary of State, with or without 

 modifications, and that it will be ratified 

 by the United States Senate, because 

 at that time Senator McLean made the 

 proposed treaty an issue, and the Senate 

 was distinctly favorable toward it. 



"Leading men in Canada, who under- 



stand the situation, are heartily in favor 

 of the proposed treaty. The North Ameri- 

 can Fish and Game Protective Associa- 

 tion, at its meeting in Ottawa last winter, 

 passed unanimously a very strong resolu- 

 tion in favor of the treaty. A little later 

 the ofiicial Commission of Conservation 

 of Canada also passed unanimously a 

 strong resolution indorsing the treaty, and 

 many of the strongest statesmen of Canada 

 have approved of it. 



"The treaty will put upon both countries 

 a more vital obligation to see that their 

 laws for the protection of migratory birds 

 are effectually enforced. It will establish 

 regulations prohibiting the illegal trans- 

 portation of game from either country to 

 the other. It will stop the shooting of 

 wildfowl in the breeding-season. It will 

 give a tremendous impetus to the protec- 

 tion of migratory insectivorous birds from 

 the Arctic Ocean to the Rio Grande. The 

 seasons, so far as most of the provinces of 

 Canada are concerned, will not be ma- 

 terially changed. The United States, 

 under the migratory-bird law, has been 

 required to curtail seasons to a very much 

 greater extent than is asked of Canada. 

 The passage of the treaty will do more 

 than anything else to assure the perman- 

 ency of the principle of federal protection 

 to migratory birds. Canada breeds most 

 of the wildfowl which are shot in the United 

 States, and should have the right to an 

 equal voice in their protection against 

 possible extermination by her southern 

 neighbor." 



NEW MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 



Enrolled from July i to September i, 

 1914. 



Life Members. 



Comstock, Miss Clara E. 

 Harrison, Alfred C. 

 Houghton, Miss Elizabeth G. 

 Vanderbilt, Mrs. French 



Sustaining Members. 

 Adams, Mrs. John D. 

 Ahruke, Carl J. R. 

 Ashley, Miss Ellen M. 

 Atwater, Mrs. Wm. C. 

 Barker, F. E. 

 Barr, James H. 

 Benson, Miss Mary 

 Betts, Mrs. E. K. 

 Bowditch, Charles P. 

 Brinckerhoff, Mrs. E. A. 

 Brown, Clarence D. 

 Bunker, William 

 Burr, Roy C. 



Sustaining Members, continued. 

 Butler, Rev. E. E. 

 Caldwell, Mrs. J. H. 

 Childs, William, Jr. 

 Chisolm, B. Ogden 

 Coghlin, Peter A. 

 Curry, William L. 

 Dahlstrom, Mrs. A. 

 Daniel, Charles A. 

 Davis, Henry J. 

 Day, Stephen S. 

 Delano, Mrs. Frederic A. 

 Dobie, Richard L. 

 Don, John 

 Dyer, Mrs. Ruth C. 

 Eustis, Mrs. Herbert H. 

 Fry, Henry J. 

 Fuller, Miss M. W. 

 Graves, Mrs. Henry S. 

 Haggin, Mrs. M. V. 

 Hannah, Charles G. 

 Harbison, Wm. .Albert 

 Harrison, Mrs. M. J. 



