10 NEIV JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY 



As we have recently remarked to our members, the crisis 

 is averted, the continued existence of the Society decreed and 

 guaranteed, at least for the present, but the whole subject has 

 its lessons, which we will do well to grasp and utilize. Some 

 of our members have since been sending in new members in 

 encouraging numbers — one as many as 19, another 27 — prov- 

 ing that what some members have intimated and the Secretary 

 had almost come to believe was impossible is entirely feasible. 

 This important help and the financial results achieved point 

 the way to the securing of results that may easily become the 

 pride and gratification of every person who appreciates birds 

 and their importance to man. 



In considering the value of the press to such a cause as ours 

 and the generous cooperation of the press of New Jersey 

 which is steadily increasing, it is well worth Avhile to note 

 that the first contribution received in response to the state- 

 ment of August 22d was a check for $25.00 from a Sustaining 

 Member who, being a newspaper man, published a most help- 

 ful appeal in our behalf in his paper, one of the most influential 

 and widely read in the State. In Ridgewood, from whence has 

 come such abundant and substantial support for our work, the 

 editor and owner of the Ridgewood Herald took up our cause 

 in the most energetic manner, started a fund with $10.00, and 

 with a series of strong appeals built it up to $115.00. The 

 editor of the Elmer Times, too, who has always been most 

 willing to give publicity and cooperation to our efforts, 

 published several appeals and himself becanie a Sustaining 

 Member. 



The Society has during the fiscal year enrolled 3 new 

 Patrons, 3 Life Members, 60 Sustaining Members, 230 Mem- 

 bers, 7 Associate Members, and 5,001 Junior Members. It has 

 lost one Life Member by transference to Patron : 5 Sustaining 

 Members by death, 12 by resignation, 5 by delinquency; 8 

 Members by death, 32 by resignation, 106 by delinquency; 2 

 Associate Members by death, 19 removed and left no address. 

 There is, therefore, a net gain of 3 Patrons, 2 Life Members, 

 38 Sustaining Members, 84 Members ; a net loss of 14 Asso- 

 ciate Members. The greatest losses came prior to August 

 22d ; the most rapid gains since that date. The net loss of 

 Associate Members dou1)tless resulted largel}^ ilirough the 

 enforced suspension of work in the scliools. 



