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That the good work is spreading broadly is evidenced by tlie following 

 list of Audubon Societies from which we have received ciixulars or other 

 announcements of their formation, all but the fust two organized within 

 the present year. 



Massachusetts Audubon Society. Secretary, Miss Harriet E. Richards, 

 Boston Society of Natural History, Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. 



Pennsylvania Audubon Society. Secretary, Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 

 South 2 1 St St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Audubon Society of the State of New York. Secretary, Miss Emma II. 

 Lockwood, 243 West 75th St., New York City. 



New Hampshire Audubon Society. Secretary, Mrs. Franck W. Batch- 

 elder, Myrtle Hill, Manchester, N. H. 



Illinois Audubon Society. Secretary, Miss Emily Rumsey, 313 Huron 

 St., Chicago, 111. 



Maine Audubon Society. Secretary, Miss Edith J. Boardman, Bruns- 

 wick, Me. 



Audubon Society of the District of Columbia. Secretary, Mrs. John 

 Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P St., Washington, D. C. 



Wisconsin Audubon Society. Secretary Miss Madge Anderson, 134 

 Twentieth St., Milwaukee, Wis. 



New Jersey Audubon Society. Secretary, Miss Mary A. Mellick, 

 Plainfield, N. J. 



Audubon Societies are also organizing in Colorado, Rhode Island, and 

 other States. 



The New York Zoological Society was incorporated, by special act 

 of the Legislature, April 26, 1S95, " to establish and maintain a Zoological 

 Garden in the City of New York, to encovn-age the study of Zoology, 

 and to furnish instruction and recreation for the people " ; and the 

 -Commissioners of the Sinking Fund were authorized by the same act to 

 set apart lands for the uses of the Society. On March 24, 1897, the said 

 Commissioners made an allotment of a tract of 261 acres in South Bronx 

 Park to the Society, for the purposes of a Zoological Garden. The 

 Society is to provide the original equipment of buildings and animals, 

 and has begun to raise by subscription a fund of $250,000 for this purpose. 

 The encouragement already received indicates that the means needed will 

 be promptly, raised. A vast amount of time and labor has been expended 

 on the plans of the grounds and buildings, and they will be submitted to 

 experts — • landscape gardeners, field naturalists and zoological garden 

 experts — before final presentation to the Park Commissioners for adop- 

 tion. It is expected that actual work on the grounds will soon begin, and 

 in due time we may hope to see in Bronx Park one of the largest and best 

 equipped zoological gardens in the world. The Society is fortunate in 

 having secured Mr. William T. Hornaday as Director of the Gardens. The 

 present office of the Society is 69 Wall St., New York City. 



