THE AUDUBON NOTE BOOK. 



AN AUDUBON BADGE. 



From time to time we have had inquiries as to 

 whether the Society has any distinctive medal or 

 badge, and in many cases there has been a very 

 .strongly expressed desire for something of the sort, 

 which might be worn on the person as an open de- 

 claration of principles. Latterly these applications 

 have been so numerous that we have been tempted 

 to consider the matter from the practical standpoint, 

 and have decided on a design which we publish be- 

 low. It is a brooch pin in coin silver, with raised letters 

 and monogram as in the design, the cost, fifty cents. 



The preliminary costs of preparing the die, etc., 

 would be something considerable, and we should not 

 feel justified in undertaking it unless assured that there 

 would be something like a general demand for the 

 bad"-e. All our readers who are in favor of the new 

 departure are consequently invited to send in their 

 applications, and local secretaries are solicited to as- 

 certain the wishes of such of their members as are 



.easily accessible. 



C. F. Amery, General .Secretary. 



MEMBERSHIP RETURNS. 



TiiF. number of registered members on April 30 

 was 29,956, showing an increase during the month 

 of 3,206 members. New York and Pennsylvania 

 maintain their relative positions as first and second, 

 and the Southern and Western States contribute as 

 usual only units or tens. New Jersey would have 

 shown a considerable falling off but for the exertions 

 of Principal K. O. Ilovey, of Newark High School, 

 who enlisted most of the members credited to the 

 State in April. Since the close of April the Society 

 has lost a valuable coadjutor in the person of Miss 

 Anna F. Davis, of Easton, Pa., whose charge of an 

 aged mother leaves her no leisure for the duties of 

 local secretary, but we may hope to replace her, and 

 her loss to the State has been compensated for by 

 the acquisition of Dr. R. L. Walker, of Mansfield 

 Valley, who enlists all his patients, and prescribes 

 The Auduhon for their ailments. There are still 

 some two or three thousand Michigan members 



awaiting registration. The returns for the month 

 by .States and Territories are as follows : 



New York 8;i District of Columbia 32 



Pennsylvania 460 Kansas 71 



Illinois 223 Arkansas 2S 



New Jersey 23o Minnesota 21 



Ohio 23S Iowa 11 



Indiana 191 Connecticut 56 



Massachusetts 98 Wisconsin 48 



Michigan 41 California 1 



Maryland 13 Nebraska 1 



Rhode Island 46 Georgia i 



Virginia 26 Florida 4 



Maine 30 Dakota 5 



Missouri 29 England i 



New Hampshire 10 Dominion of Canada 350 



3,206 

 C. F. Amery, General Secretary. 



LOST AND FOUND. 



One pleasant summer afternoon, as Mr. and Mrs. 

 W. were taking a stroll in Brooklyn's beautiful 

 cemetery. Greenwood, they were overtaken by a 

 shower. Standing beneath the spreading branches 

 of a large tree, under which they had sought shelter, 

 they were surprised to receive upon their shoulders 

 a shower of birds. The force of the wind and rain 

 had dislodged a robin's nest and a brood of young, 

 almost fully grown, but scarcely able to fly, had fallen 

 from the tree. 



Mr. W. took one of them in his hand, say- 

 ing to his wife, "We will take this one home 

 and put it in a cage." Mrs. W. assented thought- 

 lessly, and when the rain had ceased they started 

 away with their little captive. They had not pro- 

 ceeded far, however, when they observed that the 

 parent birds were following them, coming close to 

 them and crying piteously. Mrs. W.'s heart was 

 touched, and she appealed to her husband to let 

 the little one go free, but he wanted the robin, and 

 assured her that the old birds would soon forget 

 their grief. The robins followed them until they 

 had passed through the cemetery gate, never ceasing 

 their cries. 



Reaching home the little captive was placed in a 

 gilded cage and tenderly cared for, but Mrs. W. 

 could not enjoy her evening meal, and when she re- 

 tired she was unable to sleep. She could not drive 

 that cry of the mother bird from her ears. She 

 called to her husband in the middle of the night and 

 entreated him to take the little creature back to its 

 mother in the morning. Touched by his wife's sorrow 



