Annual Report of the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies for 1905 



CONTENTS 



Report of the President: The Year's Work — Principal Results, Office Work, 

 Legislation, Reservations, Warden System, Cage-birds, Foreign Relations. 



Suggestions for the Coming Year — Duty of Members, Legislation for Cats, School 

 Bird-clubs, Women's Clubs, Aigrettes, Sale of Game, Spring Shooting. 



State Reports. List of Members and Contributors. Report of the Treasurer. 



REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 



By WILLIAM DUTCHER 



IT is with pardonable pride that I present to the directors and members 

 of the National Association, at its first annual meeting as an incorpo- 

 rated body, a brief outline of the results accomplished during the past 

 year. Good results are the measure of success in all corporate bodies, and 

 in this respect this Society is no different from any other. 



Your directors and officers are selected from the membership, and to 

 them is entrusted the management of affairs of the Association. If their 

 management meets your approval and shows that the talents entrusted to 

 their keeping for the year are ready to be returned with interest in the 

 shape of material good accomplished, your commendation will be expected. 

 Our Society may be compared with the ocean tides, which never stand still, 

 but ever ebb or flood ; let us so do our work that the movement of our 

 Society will always be like the flood-tide, growing broader and deeper day 

 by day and year after year. 



The object of this organization is to be a barrier between wild birds and 

 animals and a very large unthinking class and a smaller, but more harmful 

 class of selfish people. The higher and stronger we build our wall the 

 greater our measure of success. The unthinking, or, in plain English, the 

 ignorant class, we hope to reach through educational channels, while the 

 selfish people we shall control through the enforcement of wise laws, reser- 

 vations or bird refuges, and the warden system. How well your officers 

 and directors have succeeded in their undertaking will be shown in the 

 following report. 



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