Cfje Hutiution 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, 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 

 Rirds 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. 



SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



The seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies 

 was held in the American Museum of Na- 

 tural History, New York City, October 24 

 and 25, 1921. Many members were present 

 and took part in the various discussions that 

 arose. 



At the public meeting on Monday night 

 an audience of over 600 greeted the Asso- 

 ciation's speakers. The session was formally 

 opened by Dr. Frederic A. Lucas, Director 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 who extended a welcome to the Audubon 

 Societies. This was responded to by the 

 President of the Association who also spoke 

 briefly on the Association's activities the 

 past year and the extent of the membership 

 today. He reported that there were active 

 paying members of the Association in every 

 state in the Union but Nevada, and also in 

 half a dozen foreign countries. He then 

 introduced Dr. Frank M. Chapman who 

 sketched the great development that had 

 taken place in wild-bird protection since the 

 Audubon Society began its work. He read 

 a list of the various song-birds that he had 

 seen on women's hats on 1.4th Street, in New 

 York City, at the time when these birds 

 were so extensively worn, before the Au- 



dubon laws were passed by the various state 

 legislatures. 



Dr. Theodore S. Palmer, representing the 

 United States Biological Survey, told of the 

 Government's work for wild-life conser- 

 vation and the cooperation it had always 

 received from this Association. Louis 

 Agassiz Fuertes, the eminent American bird 

 artist, then delighted the audience by 

 drawing on an easel situated on the rostrum 

 a series of colored pictures of wild birds, at 

 the same time imitating the songs and calls 

 as each bird took its final form and tints. 

 The evening was concluded with 2,000 feet 

 of motion-picture films of wild birds and 

 animals taken by William L. Finley, the As- 

 sociation's agent for the Pacific Coast States. 



On Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock, the 

 members and delegates gathered for the 

 annual business meeting. The reports of the 

 President and Treasurer were given. These 

 will be found printed in full in this issue of 



BlED-LORE. 



Miss Heloise Meyer and Theodore S 

 Palmer, whose terms of office as members ol 

 the Board of Directors had expired, were 

 reelected. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, 

 of New York, was elected to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Dr. Joel A. Allen 



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