EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary 



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

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City 



William Dutcher, President 

 F. A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Jr.. Treasurer 

 Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



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

 a member, and all are welcome. 



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

 Birds and Animals: 



$5.00 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 Sioo.oo paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 Si, 000.00 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000.00 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000.00 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Egret Protection for 1914 



Never have the ofiBicers of this Associa- 

 tion appealed to the members and friends 

 of the movement for support for our cam- 

 paign against the aigrette traffic with 

 more confidence than we do at this time. 

 This feeling is based on the knowledge 

 that the past year witnessed greater results 

 from Audubon activities than has any like 

 period in the history of American bird 

 protection. 



The Record for 1913 



Just glance for a moment at what was 

 accomplished by the Association with the 

 $10,000 contributed to the Egret Protec- 

 tion Fund last year: 



First. The passage of the Pennsylvania 

 Anti-Plumage Law, which put an end to 

 the business of the great wholesale feather 

 dealers whose American headquarters 

 were located in Philadelphia. 



Second. The passage of laws preventing 

 the sale of aigrettes also in the states of 

 Michigan and Vermont. 



Third. The employment of field agents 

 to locate colonies of breeding Egrets in 

 the southern states. 



Fourth. The employment of a force 

 of eighteen Wardens, who so successfully 

 guarded the 8,000 Egrets in these rook- 

 eries that throughout the nesting season 

 not over twelve of the protected birds are 



believed to have been killed by plume- 

 hunters. 



Fifth. Secured a hearing before the 

 Ways and Means Committee of Con- 

 gress, and later, with the cooperation of 

 the New York Zoological Society, con- 

 ducted a campaign of publicity and per- 

 sonal appeal, which finally resulted in 

 the passage of the Federal Plumage Law, 

 prohibiting the importation of feathers of 

 wild birds to America. 



Sixth. Secured evidence which led to 

 the prosecution of five plume-hunters in 

 Florida and several milliners in northern 

 cities. 



Seventh. By means of attractive litera- 

 ture, magazine, and newspaper articles, a 

 more systematic and wide-extended propa- 

 ganda of public education on the cruelty 

 of wearing feathers was conducted than 

 during any previous year in our history. 



With this showing of results accom- 

 plished during the past twelve months, we 

 come before the public with the utmost 

 confidence, believing that the good people 

 of the country will be even more ready 

 than heretofore to support this well- 

 organized, well-known, and productive 

 humane movement. 



Plans for the Present Season 



The Association must have at least 

 $10,000 at the earliest possible moment 



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