Cl)e ^utiubon Societies 



" Voii cannot icitli a scalpel Jind the poet's soul, 

 JVor yet the u'ild bird's song." 



Kctited by Mrs. Mahki, Osgood Wricih" (President of the Audubo'i Society of the State of 

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

 and other Kiril Protective Societies should be addressed. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries. 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. \V. B.'vtchki.der, Manchester. 



Massachusetts Miss Hakuikt 1*2. Richards, caVe Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street. Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. Hknrv S. Gi.ovkr, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Kmma H. Lockwoud, 243 West Seventy-fiftli street, New York City. 



New Jersey Miss Mary A. Mellick, Plainfield. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 Soutli Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dkwhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Wheeling, W^. Va. (branch of Penn. Society) . .Elizabeth I. Cummins, 1314 Chapline street, Wheeling. 



Ohio Miss Clara Russell, 903 Paradrome street, Cincinnati. 



Indiana .\mos W. Butler, State House, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



Iowa Miss Nellie S. Board, Keokuk. 



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



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



„, ^ , . , . , , r, • ,- human voice. A few spoken words are 



The Conducting of Audubon Societies ... 



worth a score of printed ones. A com- 



It is one thing to organize a society or pelling personality is worth a well of ink 



club and quite another to set it upon a in this Bird Crusade of 1899. Let the 



permanent footing and keep it in step with heads of societies come in contact with 



the constant requirements of progression. the members as much as possible, and 



At a time when a great majority look gather them in local circles. Let those 



askance at the startling array of societies who are able to speak about birds do so, 



that they are asked to ' join, " it behooves and let those who lack the gift of words 



all Bird Protective bodies to conduct read aloud from the works of others, 



themselves with extreme conservatism, Whenever possible, urge local secreta- 



that they may not bear the stigma of being ries to hold bird classes during spring and 



called emotional ' fads, ' but really appeal summer in their respective towns. If no 



to those whom they seek to interest. one person knows enough to teach the 



Many men (and women also) have many others let them club together, buy a few 



minds, and a form of appeal that will books, and, going out of doors, work out 



attract one will repel another. It is upon the problems of identification as best they 



the tactful management of these appeals may, until every little village has a nature 



and the bringing of the subject vitally study class working its wa)', Chautauqua- 



home to different classes and ages, that the Circle fashion. Remember one point, 



life of the .\udubon Societies depends. please. No society can succeed that is 



Leaflets have their influence with those content to count the quantity rather than 



who already care enough to take the quality of its members. One hundred 



trouble to read them. Special exercises intelligent members who know how to 



in schools have a potent influence for spread the zcJiy and //(jti' of the cru- 



good. But the best method of spreading sade are worth 10,000 who have merely 



the gospel of humanity, is that by which 'joined' because some one they were proud 



it was first spread igoo centuries ago, by of knowing asked them to and it was 



personal contact and the power of the easier to say ' yes ' than ' no, ' especially as 



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