Cbe &utiubon §3>otittit& 



" You cannot with a scalpel find the poet's soul, 

 Nor yet the wild bird ' s song." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this department 

 should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



Maine A. H. Norton, Westbiook. 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Miss Harriet C. Richards, 48 Lloyd aye., Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. 



New Jersey = Miss Julia Scribner, 510 E. Front street, Plainfield, N. J. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore Place, Wilmington. 



Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 2212 R street, Washington. 



Virginia Mrs. Frederick E. Town, Glencarlyn. 



North Carolina Miss Annie Petty, Greensboro. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Missouri August Reese, 2516 North Fourteenth street, St. Louis. 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave„ Cincinnati. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 20S West street, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin ■. Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaits, 260 Langdon street, Madison. 



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. 



Wyoming Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



California. .'. Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



WORK! ous plans, all of which aim to plant in the 



. , , x A . , „ T , rising generation a greater respect for ani- 



And after that more Work , f., r .... . 



mal life. Unfortunately this is not enough. 



The first meeting of the National Com- The states and territories which have 



mittee of the State Audubon Societies, of either dormant societies or none and lax 



which a detailed account is elsewhere given, laws are in the majority. In these places 



was practically a two-sessioned conjuga- the birds partially protected elsewhere are 



tion of the verb to work, with many varia- destroyed in the migrations or in the breed- 



tions not found in orthodox grammars. ing season, as in the case of the northwest- 



The imperative mood, being the favorite, erly regions, such as Alaska, 



was only kept within bounds by the condi- While it is to the interest of all societies 



tional, which insisted upon asking the most to have protection extended, it is often out 



withering questions regarding ways and of their power as separate bodies to push 



means. the interest beyond state limits or for their 



As far as the educational side of bird secretaries to answer the questions and 



protection goes, most of the state societies supply drafts of by-laws for those desir- 



already formed are amply able to hold their ing legislative information, or hints for the 



own and may be trusted to watch the laws formation of new societies. Be it here 



as well as to gradually develop their vari- understood that many of the most active of 



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