14 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



the American Museum of Natural History an admirable 

 marble bust of Audubon was unveiled on a notable occa- 

 sion, December 29, 1906, when similar honors were paid 

 to Louis Agassiz, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Edward 

 Drinker Cope, James Dwight Dana, Benjamin Frank- 

 lin, Joseph Henry, Joseph Leidy, John Torrey, and 

 Alexander von Humboldt. On November 26, 1910, a 

 statue of Audubon, after an admirable design by the 

 veteran sculptor, Edward Virginius Valentine, of Rich- 

 mond, Virginia, was unveiled in Audubon Park, New 

 Orleans, where the naturalist, with pencil in hand, is 

 represented in the act of transferring to paper the like- 

 ness of a favorite subject. He also occupies a niche in 

 the Hall of Fame at New York University. 



In recent times Audubon's name has become a house- 

 hold word through the medium of the most effective 

 instrument which has yet been devised for the conser- 

 vation of animal life in this or any country, the National 

 Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of 

 Wild Birds and Animals. This has become the coor- 

 dinating center for the spread and control of a great 

 national movement that received its first impulse in 

 1886. 7 Launched anew ten years later, it has advanced 



7 The first Audubon Society, devoted to the interests of bird pro- 

 tection, was organized by Dr. George Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and 

 Stream, in 1886, and 16,000 members were enrolled during the first year; 

 Dr. Grinnell was also the father of the Audubonian Magazine (see 

 Bibliography, No. 190), which made its first appearance in January, 1887; 

 by the middle of that year the membership in the new society had in- 

 creased to 38,000, but with the disappearance of the Magazine in 1889 the 

 movement languished and came to a speedy end. In 1896 a fresh start 

 was taken by the inauguration of State societies in Massachusetts and 

 Pennsylvania, and the movement gathered greater force through the in- 

 auguration in 1899 of the admirably conducted magazine, Bird-Lore, as 

 its official organ. The State societies were federated in 1902, and the 

 National Committee then created gave place in 1905 to the National 

 Association. See Gilbert Trafton, Bird Friends, for an excellent summary 

 of the work of the Audubon Societies, and the "Twelfth Annual Report of 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies," Bird-Lore, vol. xviii (1916). 



