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with him. By his death this^ Association has lost one of its most loyal, earnest, 

 and devoted friends. 



Recently, by direction of the Board of Directors, there was made and 

 erected in the home office of the Association a bronze tablet bearing this legend: 



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IN MEMORY OF 



WILLIAM DUTCHER 



846 



19 20 



-mX FRIEND. AND PROTECTOR GF BIRDS. ' 



Nut^AlHU FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE NAtr0NAL 

 ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES • . 



m RECOGNITION OF HIS LEADERSHIP \: ■' 

 'IN WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



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The cost of the tablet was borne by a few of Mr. Dutcher's old personal 

 friends, and chief among those who showed deepest interest in this memorial 

 was Mrs, Kingsmill Marrs, a loyal member of the Association and friend and 

 admirer of our lamented first President and founder. 



