Ct)e &utiubon J^ociettea 



" 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 



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 ' Martha R. Clarke, 89 Brown street, 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 T. 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. 



Oklahoma Mrs. Adelia Holcomb, Enid. 



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. 



Oregon Miss Gertrude Metcalfe, 634 Williams ave., Portland . 



RepOrtS Of Societies The anti-pigeon shooting bill was a 



great victory won by the Society for the 

 Audubon Society of New York State „ c ,-, . . . , T , 



J .Prevention or Cruelty to Animals. In be- 



In reviewing the work of the past half of this bill the Audubon Society sent 

 eighteen months, since the last annual meet- appeals throughout the state urging its 

 ing was held, on March 8, 1901, the New support. Appeals urging the passage of 

 York Audubon Society has cause for much the Alaska bill and Forest Reserve bill 

 encouragement. We now stand to face any were also sent out. Through our local 

 adverse conditions, supported by the strong secretaries many signatures were obtained 

 arm of both state and federal law. The and forwarded to our senators at Washing- 

 bill securing protection to Gulls and Terns ton. The Alaska bill became a law on 

 was signed by Governor Odell, March 12, June 7, 1902. 



1901. This was due to the untiring effort The Society is now better equipped to 



of Mr. Dutcher, who in making his final develop the educational features of the 



report to our Executive Committee, as a work than ever before. We are much in- 



committee on law, said: "All that has been debted to the thought and energy of Miss 



attempted for the betterment of the New Eliza S. Blunt, one of our local secretaries, 



York law for bird protection, has been sue- who raised one hundred dollars to enable 



cessfully accomplished." the Society to purchase a lantern and set of 



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