C^e Butiution Societies? 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, President 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances, for dues and contributions, to 



the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1Q74 Broadway, New York City. 



Telephone, Columbus 7327 



T. Gilbert Pearson, Pres-d;n( 

 Theodore S. Palmer, F/ri/ Vice President X.illiau V. W'sarton, Secretary 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Joxathan Dwight, Treasurer 



Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 



$100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 



$1,000 constitutes a person a Patron 



$5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 



$25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



FoRii OF Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



ANNUAL MEETING 



The National Association of Audubon 

 Societies held its sixteenth annual meeting 

 in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York City, on October 25 and 26, 

 1920. 



At 8 o'clock on the first evening, a gen- 

 eral public meeting was held in the large 

 assembly hall. The principal speakers 

 were Norman McClintock, of Pittsburgh, 

 who showed moving pictures made by him 

 the past summer on the Association's large 

 bird reservation at Orange Lake, Fla. 

 These included many close-up,' intimate 

 studies of the home-life of Gallinules, 

 Least Bitterns, Egrets, and other water- 

 birds that assemble there to rear their 

 young. Robert Cushman Murphy, of the 

 Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Science^, 

 told the story of the vast bird colonies that 

 make the great guano deposits on some of 

 the barren islands off the coast of Peru. 

 His address was illustrated with stereop- 

 ticon slides and moving pictures which he 

 had made «howing the marvelous bird-life 

 of these islands. 



The Secretary of the Association gave a 

 brief resume of the Association's work the 

 past year and spoke of the problems now 

 confronting wild-life conservationists. 



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Dr. F. A. Lucas, Acting President, pre- 

 sided at the meeting. 



At 10 o'clock, on the morning of Octo- 

 ber 26, the business session opened in the 

 Museum with Dr. T. S. Palmer, First Vice- 

 President, in the chair. In addition to the 

 annual reports of the Secretary, Treasurer, 

 Field Agents, and representatives of 

 affiliated organizations, four members of 

 the Board of Directors were elected. Dr. 

 F. A. Lucas and T. Gilbert Pearson, whose 

 terms had expired, were reelected. In 

 place of Ernest Harold Baynes, whose 

 term expired, John Dryden Kuser, of 

 Bernardsville, N. J., was elected. To fill 

 the unexpired term of William Dutcher, 

 deceased, Miss Heloise Meyer, of Lenox, 

 Mass., was appointed. 



At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Edward H. 

 Forbush presided at the Educational Con- 

 ference. Here talks were given and disc\is- 

 sions entered into by Winthrop Packard, 

 'Mrs. Mary S. Sage, Miss Frances A. Hurd, 

 Herbert K. Job, and other representatives 

 of the Association, as well as by Prof. H. 

 L. Madison, of the Rhode Island Audubon 

 Society; Mrs. E. 0. Marshall, of the Massa- 

 chusetts State Grange Bird Protection 

 Committee; Dr. G. Clyde Fisher and 



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