Ci)e Audubon iSocieties 



" 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 ail 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, Westbrook. 



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 ave., 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, Delainore 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 I. Gilbert Pearson, 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, 208 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. 



Reports Of Societies pers to be signed by juniors. These were 



the result of much thought and careful 

 work, and are proving themselves most sat- 



Illinois Audubon Society 



The Illinois Audubon Society, having isfactory. Our new class of members, pay- 

 reached the mature age of five years, feels ing an annual fee of $1, grows slowly but 

 that while it can hardly claim for itself the surely, and has already more than justified 

 title of ' ancient and honorable,' it has at the wisdom of the change and confirms the 

 least passed the period of infancy and can opinion that no society should attempt its 

 stand firmly upon its feet. work without at least one class of members 



At the date of its fifth annual meeting, paying annual dues. 

 April 5, 1902, the number of members join- We have held our usual semi-annual and 



ing during the five years counted some 932 annual meetings. At the former, addresses 



adults and 10,024 juniors, a total of 10,956. were made by the president, Mr. Ruthven 



We have sent out nearly 3,000 leaflets Deane, and Mrs. Sara A. Hubbard. At 

 during the year and have published one the latter, beside the usual business meet- 

 pamphlet, a reprint of Mr. William Prae- ing, an address was given by Dr. J. Rollin 

 ger's 'Birds in Horticulture,' a work of Slonaker on ' Birds and Their Nests,' which 

 considerable value. We have also issued was illustrated by very beautiful slides 

 new membership cards for adults and pa- taken by Dr. Slonaker. 



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