Cl)e Audubon ^octetie^ 



" }'ou cannot with a scalpel fi>id the poet's soul. 

 Nor yet the wild bird's song." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabf.l Osgood Wric.ht (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries. 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchki.dkr, Manchester. 



Massachusetts Miss Harkikt F. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr.. 1S7 Bowen street. Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. Hknrv S. C.i.ovkr, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 .West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. 



New Jersey Miss Mary \. Mkli.ick, Plainfield. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Kdwaro Ruhins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Ukwhirst Pattkn, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Wheeling, W. Va. (branch of Penn Society). .Elizabeth I. Cimmins, 1314 Cliapliiie street, VVlieelinR. 



Ohio Miss Clara Rlsskll, 903 Paradrome street, Cincinnati. 



Indiana .Kmos \V. Biti.hr, Slate House, Indianai)olis. 



Illinois Miss Marv Drimmond, Wheaton. 



Iowa Miss Nkllii-: S. Boarp, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. Gkorge W. Pkckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Mrs. J. P. Elmkr, 314 West Third street, St. Paul. 



Tins department will be devoted espe- work, not merely statistics, but notes of 



cially to the interests of active Audubon anything of interest, for even the record 



workers, and we earnestly solicit their of discouragements, as well as of suc- 



assistance, as our success in making it a cesses, may often prove full of suggestion 



worthy representative of the cause for to workers in the same field, and aid 



which it stands largely depends upon the toward developments that will broaden 



heartiness of their cooperation. Others and strengthen the entire movement. A 



also, who are lovers and students of na- movement in complete harmony with the 



ture in many forms, but who have never, great desire of thinking people for a 



for divers reasons, engaged in any bird broader life in nature, which is one of 



protective work, may, through reading of the most healthful and hopeful features 



the systematic and effective methods of of the close of this century, 

 the societies, become convinced of the M- O. W. 



necessity of personal action. 



We intend at once to establish the ReportS of SocieticS* 



more practical side of the department by 



printing in an early issue a bibliography ^.j^E MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY 



of Audubon Society publications, in order ^ ,, . r^ 



The Massachusetts Audubon Society 



that anyone interested may know exactly , . , , . . , ^^ , j r 



,. , ... ., has reissued the .Audubon Calendar of 



what literature has appeared and is availa- , , . . , . , , 



,,,,,. ^^ , , last year and it is having a good sale, 



ble. tor this reason we ask the sec- ^, ' , . j • n r 



. ,, , . . , The drawings were made especially tor 



retaries of all the societies to send us a 



complete set of their publications, stating, ~~ ,. , , . ., ■ , r 



^ ^ • »' * -j-l,e editor acknowledges the receipt from 



if possible, the number of each which Mr. Witmer Stone, chairman of the Committee on 



has been circulated, and, when for sale, l''rd Protection of the American Ornithologists' 



Union, of a number of the following reports, 



giving the price at which they may be which, before the establishment of an official 



obtained. organ for the Audubon Societies, had been sent 



,,, , ^ ^, . • X „j to Mr. Stone for inclusion in his annual report 



We also request the secretaries to send ^^ ^,^^ ^ ^^ ^, _ ^^^^, ^^.^-^^^ j,,^^„g,, ,^^.^ ^^ 



us all possible news of their plans and space, they were necessarily omitted. 



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