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State Museum, Gainesville, Fla. 



Museum of Natural History, Springfield, Mass. 



Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ills. 



Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, La. 



Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 



Worcester Natural History Society, Worcester, Mass. 



Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. 



Museum, Guilford College, N. C. 



Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder. 



Museum of Natural History, Urbana, Ills. 



Museum, Hendrix College, Conway, Ark. 



Society of Natural History, Wilmington, Del. 



Office of Massachusetts Audubon Society, Boston. 



Birdcraft Sanctuary, Fairfield, Conn. 



Museum and Library, Oregon Audubon Society, Portland. 



Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



In January, 1919, through the columns of Bird-Lore this Association 

 first advised the pubhc of the Eagle Bounty Law in operation in Alaska. Since 

 then we have continued to bulletin, from time to time, the results of this 

 measure. The last report from our representative in Alaska shows the official 

 territorial records and reveals that bounties had already been paid on the feet 

 of 8,356 Eagles. Nor does this tell the entire story of the appalling slaughter of 

 the American Eagle, for it should be borne in mind that to collect the 50 cents 

 bounty it is necessary to bring in the feet to some territorial official and pay 

 a fee for an affidavit to accompany them before the bounty can be collected. 

 Men who secure only one or two Eagles at a time, or who shoot their birds a 

 very long distance from the place where the bounty is paid, of course never 

 report their killings. Furthermore, many hundreds of Eagles undoubtedly are 

 wounded by gun-fire and escape in the wilderness to die later from their injuries. 



We have filed the most vigorous protests against this law and for a time it 

 appeared as though there were prospects of getting it repealed by the territorial 

 legislature, but the latest reports are that a great majority of people, including 

 Governor Riggs, have such large ideas of the destructiveness of this bird to 

 fish and game that the Bounty Law is in no immediate danger. 



WILLIAM DUTCHER 



By the death of the President of this Association, William Butcher, on 

 July I, 1920, there passed away the leading pioneer in the cause of American 

 bird-protection. He was responsible for. the establishment of this Association, 

 and from the time of its incorporation, in January, 1905, until he was stricken 

 with paralysis, in October, 1910, its growth and welfare were matters of ever- 

 abiding concern in his mind. Although helpless for ten years, and deprived 

 utterly of the power of speech or the ability to write, he never lost interest 

 in reading or hearing of what was being accomplished for the cause that lay 



