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and Growers, Atlanta, Ga.; and the biennial session of the National Associa- 

 tion of State Game Wardens and Commissioners, in the Yellowstone National 

 Park, Wyoming. 



At these meetings, he introduced and secured the passage of strong resolu- 

 tions endorsing the work of the United States Biological Survey, as follows: 



Whereas: The Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, has been engaged for many years in studying the habits and distribution of wild 

 birds and mammals for the purpose of determining their economic value to the agri- 

 culturist, and 



Whereas: It has been discovered by the said Bureau of Biological Survey that 

 many of our non-game and song-birds and certain of our mammals are most valuable 

 assistants in destroying worms and other insects injurious to growing crops, fruit and 

 forest trees, and the bulletins of this subject issued from time to time by the Bureau 

 are a practical and valuable aid to farmers and planters, and 



Whereas: The Bureau of Biological Survey has investigated the relations of birds 

 to the boll-weevil in Texas and other cotton-growing states, and has issued several 

 publications on the subject, naming the species that destroy the weevil and giving infor- 

 mation as to their habits, with practical suggestions for increasing their numbers, and 



Whereas: The work of game preservation by this Bureau has resulted in a more 

 general uniformity of state laws relating to open seasons, licenses and other details, 

 while the enforcement of the Federal statute known as the Lacy Law has resulted in 

 a more general observance of state laws regulating the export of game-birds and animals, 

 and 



Whereas: All of this work is of direct and positive benefit to the cotton-grower, 

 therefore; — 



Be it Resolved: That this Association recognizes fully the value of the work of 

 the Bureau of Biological Survey, and most respectfully petitions the national Congress 

 at its forthcoming session to make a sufficient appropriation for the support of this 

 Bureau to enable it to continue and broaden its work along the lines indicated; and 

 be it further resolved: — That a copy of this resolution be furnished by our Secretary 

 to every Senator and Representative in Congress from the cotton-growing states. 



Visits with the officers of the state Audubon Societies have been made, and 

 more or less work has been accomplished in Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio, 

 Missouri and Colorado. A number of trips, in executing the preliminary work 

 for legislative enactment, have been made to Virginia. 



Miss Mary T. Moore has, during the year, been added to the office force as 

 school secretary. During the summer months she lectured before twenty-four 

 farmers' institutes, and since then has been busy with correspondence and 

 supplying the school-teachers in North Carolina and Virginia with leaflets 

 of the Association. 



Meeting oj Game Commissioners. — Your Secretary attended the fourth 

 biennial meeting of the National Association of State Game and Fish Wardens and 

 Commissioners which was held at Fort Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, 

 August 9 and 10. The members met at Mammoth Hot Spring Hotel on August 

 8, and the same day called in a body to pay their respects to General S. B. Young, 

 Superintendent of the Park, by whose invitation the Association was holding 



