" you cannot with a scalpel find the poeCs soul, 

 Nor vet 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 depart- 

 ment 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. 



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



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen 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 Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 



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



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



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



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



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



Florida Mrs. C. F. Dommerich, Maitland. 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z.' McClklland, 5265 Eastern .Ave., Cincinnati. 



Indiana Amos W. Butler, State House, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs. T. L. Wales, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. George W. Pkckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Mrs. J. P. Elmer, 314 West Third street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Texas Miss Cecile Seixas, 2008 Thirty-ninth street, Galveston. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Encouraging Items such a meeting in Boston, immediately 



In the last issue the question of pledges before the convention of the American 



and fees was touched upon, and the deci- Ornithologists' Union, which will be held 



sion based upon personal experience was ^^ Cambridge, Mass , in November. 



given in favor of fees. It gives me great ^11 those to whom the matter has been 



pleasure to find that the matter at issue is broached are heartily in sympathy with 



likely to stir up an amicable difference of the movement, and I should be glad to 



opinion, and I gladly open the columns of receive general expressions of opinion on 



this department to a discussion of the mat- t^is matter also, as a very general interest 



ter, Mr. Witmer Stone leading on behalf is necessary if the conference is to fulfil 



of the Pennsylvania Society in defence of its purpose of bringing in personal touch 



the fee system. the friends of bird protection to discuss 



Who will follow with an equally decided the best methods of furthering its welfare. 



and tersely expressed plea for the other t • • j j i, • ^ j xi, 



^. . It IS, indeed, cheering to record the 



side ? Such discussions are of infinite . ^. r , • i.- • 



organization or two new societies in very 

 value to Audubonites as antidotes to a- .^.u-j^i. -c- 



important bird states, livery one cogni- 

 possible stagnation of ideas and methods. ^ c ^x. , 3 t ^\. 



^ " zant of the trend of the spring migration, 



Apropos of the interchange of ideas, it as well as the recent attempt at wholesale 



was suggested several months ago, in these slaughter in the interest of the millinery 



columns, that an Audubon conference would trade, must realize the cause for rejoicing 



be helpful. It is now proposed to hold that the accession of Delaware brings. 



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