142 OUR NATIVE BIRDS 
be transmitted to those who come after us, in a good 
state of preservation. 
“ Beyond all possibility of dispute, the time has now 
arrived when it is the duty of all American zodlogists, 
all our academies of science, zodlogical societies and 
museums, and all our higher institutions of learning, to 
unite and become actively and aggressively interested 
in comprehensive measures for protection. In co-opera- 
tion with the Audubon Society of the State of New 
York, the American Museum of Natural History, 
through its President and through Dr. J. A. Allen and 
Mr. Frank M. Chapman, is already, and for the past 
year has been, actively engaged in measures designed 
to save our remaining birds from annihilation. Dur- 
ing the last twelve months, the Audubon Society has 
sent out 35,000 circulars, and solicited active assistance 
from over 300 newspapers in this state. 
“Tt seems to us that the United States Biological 
Survey, the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia 
Academy of Sciences, the American Museum of Natural 
History, the New York Zodlogical Society, Yale Uni- 
versity, Harvard University, Cornell University, the 
Field Museum and the Leland Stanford University, 
each should employ a competent man, provide him 
with a fair allowance for expenses, and instruct him to 
devote his entire time and energy to the business of 
securing adequate protective laws throughout the whole 
United States, and in furthering all legitimate measures 
for the protection of birds and mammals. It is reason- 
able to believe that four good men could enter the 
