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 zoologists, 

 all our academies of science, zoological 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. 



" It 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 Zoological 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 



