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, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



Telephone, Columbus 7327 



T. Gilbert Pearson, President 

 Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President William P. Wharton, Secretary 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Jonathan 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 



Form 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. 



JOEL ASAPH ALLEN 



On the morning of August 29, 192 1, Dr. 

 Joel Asaph Allen, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York City, passed 

 away in the eighty-fourth year of his age. 



The amount of scientific work he accom- 

 plished during his long lifetime was very 

 great. Yet few, if any, realized the extent 

 of his accomplishments until a few years ago 

 when under heavy pressure from the Presi- 

 dent of the Museum he was induced to pre- 

 pare for publication his autobiography. 

 When this was issued it was found that he 

 was at that time the author of over 1400 

 scientific papers. Although a scholar of 

 great erudition and deeply engrossed in re- 

 search work in his chosen field of mammal- 

 ogy, he nevertheless took keen interest in the 

 cause of popularizing the subject of Natural 

 History and in the conservation of wild life. 

 His name has been connected with the cause 

 of bird-protection for nearly thirty-five years, 

 a longer period, with one exception, than that 

 of any other man in this country. 



Charitable toward the shortcomings of 

 others, eager to help those in need of counsel, 

 and seeking nothing for himself in return, he 

 unconsciously held, in strongest bondage, 

 the loyal devotion of his friends and asso- 



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ciates. He asked only to labor and to serve. 

 Extreme modesty concerning his own at- 

 tainments was a profound characteristic of 

 which his friends never tired of speaking. 

 His active efforts for the protection of wild 

 birds date from the very beginnings of or- 

 ganized bird-protective efforts in the United 

 States. 



At the third annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Ornithologists' Union, held in New York 

 City in the fall of 1885, he became a member 

 of the newly appointed 'Committee on Bird 

 Protection.' The following year this Com- 

 mittee prepared for publication a 16-page 

 supplement to Science, and shortly after- 

 ward 100,000 copies of this were issued 

 as Bulletin No. i of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union's Committee on Bird Pro- 

 tection. By far the most forceful article in 

 this Btilletin was by Dr. Allen, and bore the 

 title, 'Present Wholesale Destruction of Bird 

 Life in the United States.' When in August, 

 1886, the original Audubon Society was 

 formed by Dr. George Bird Grirmell, then 

 editor of Forest and Stream, Dr. Allen's 

 name appeared as one of its five incor- 

 porators. In 1897, the New York State 

 Audubon Society was established, and Dr. 



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