THE AUDUBON NOTE BOOK, 



MEMBERSHIP RETURNS. 



The registered membership of the Society on 

 Oct. 31 was 40,783, showing an increase of 1,033 

 during the month, due to the following sources: 



New York 233 Texas 3 



Massachusetts 217 Kansas 5 



New Hampshire 64 Iowa 48 



New Jersey 9 Illinois 16 



Maine 43 Nebraska i 



Connecticut 18 Missouri 5 



Vermont 10 Ohio 4 



Pennsylvania 46 Michigan 47 



District of Columbia 11 Indiana i 



North Carolina 19 California i 



West Virginia 25 Nevada 2 



Virginia 2 Wisconsin i 



Florida i Colorado 3 



Marj'land 10 Tennessee * 59 



Georgia 31 Canada 93 



Kentucky 4 Foreign i 



C. F. Amery 



1033 

 General Secretary. 



THE PROPOSED MONUMENT TO AUDUBON. 



At the recent meeting in New York of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 the fact that the remains of the great naturalist 

 Audubon lie in an obscure and little visited portion 

 of Trinity Cemetery, New York city, and that his 

 tomb is unmarked by any distinguishing monument, 

 was brought to the attention of the members. The 

 demands upon the time of all in attendance at that 

 meeting were so great, that no action was taken by 

 the Association, although the most lively interest 

 was expressed by individual members, and the pro- 

 priety of marking the resting place of the founder of 

 American ornithology by a suitable monument was 

 appreciated. 



The Audubon plot in Trinity Cemetery will prob- 

 ably be disturbed by the continuation westward of 

 One Hundred and Fifty-third street. The trustees 

 of the cemetery have with commendable liberality 

 assigned the Audubon family a new lot close to One 

 I lundred and Fifty-fifth street, in full sight of Audu- 

 bon Park, and near the end of Audubon avenue, 

 when this shall be continued from the north; and 

 they are in hearty co-operation with the monument 

 enterprise. 



At the first autumn meeting of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, a committee was appointed to 

 solicit funds, and make all arrangements for a monu- 

 ment. Vice-President Trowbridge then appointed 

 as the committee, Prof. Thomas Egleston of the 

 School of Mines, Chairman; Prof. Daniel Martin of 

 Rutgers Female College, and Dr. N. L. Britton of 

 ■Columbia College. This committee has organized 



with Dr. Britton as secretray and treasurer, and is 

 now ready to receive subscriptions, which will be 

 properly acknowledged. Checks should be made 

 payable to N. L. Britton, treasurer; and post office 

 orders should be drawn on Station H, New York 

 city. 



The committee estimates that between $6,000 and 

 if; 10,000 will be required to erect and engrave a shaft 

 worthy the memory of America's great naturalist, 

 and while confident that this amount will be forth- 

 coming, desires to have interest taken in the project 

 by scientists in all departments in all portions of the 

 country. 



After the Academy of Sciences had taken up the 

 matter of erecting a suitable monument to America's 

 greatest ornithologist, the American Ornithologists' 

 Union held a meeting at Washington at which a 

 committee consisting of Messrs. Geo. Bird Grinnell, 

 Wm. Dutcher and G. B. Sennett, all of this city, was 

 appointed to act in concert with the committee of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences to secure funds to 

 aid in the erection of the proposed monument. 



It was the feeling of the meeting that all ornithol- 

 ogists and others interested in birds would be glad 

 of an opportunity to contribute to the fund. 



We too think that some of our forty thousand 

 members will be glad of an opportunity to contribute 

 to the fund. We could raise the monument ourselves 

 by a subscription of twenty-five cents a member, 

 but there are others desirous of contributing, and 

 we are not asked to monopolize the undertaking, but 

 simply to contribute toward it, so while we are pre- 

 pared to appreciate a liberal response we hope that 

 none of our members will subscribe to the fund 

 excepting those who reckon it a privilege to be 

 associated with the undertaking. 



Checks should be made payable to N. L. Britton, 

 treasurer of the committee as above indicated. 



STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY IN SCHOOLS. 



Mr. George M. Minchin, of the Royal Indian 

 Engineering College, contributes the following to 

 the Sclhonie Society Letters : 



"To any one who knows something of the habits 

 and names of birds, the ignorance displayed by many 

 of his friends concerning their very names, size, 

 color, etc., is often astounding. Several of my 

 friends, for instance — men of physical science, skil- 

 ful metaphysicians, literary men — do not know the 

 difference between a goldfinch and a bullfinch, or 

 between a grouse and a pheasant ! The same ignor- 

 ance extends to the animal kingdom generally; and 



