Fifth Annual Report of the National Asso- 

 ciation of Audubon Societies, 1909 



CONTENTS 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



Education as a Factor in Audubon Work. 

 Relation of Birds to Man. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 

 Gains and Losses in Legislation. 

 List of Reservations. 

 Executive and Financial. 



REPORT OF FIELD AGENTS. 



Edward Howe Forbush in New England. 

 William Lovell Finley on Pacific Coast. 



REPORTS OF STATE SOCIETIES. 



Reports from Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of 

 Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, 

 Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, 

 New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn- 

 sylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wash- 

 ington, Wisconsin. 



LIST OF MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTORS. 

 REPORT OF TREASURER. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT 



ANNUAL MEETING 1909 



EDUCATION AS A FACTOR IN AUDUBON WORK.— 

 RELATION OF BIRDS TO MAN 



Members of the National Association: In our address to you at the 

 meeting held a year since, we gave a brief foreword on education as related to 

 the work of this Association. This year we will endeavor to elaborate this impor- 

 tant subject, for it doubtless is the most powerful factor we are using, and is the 

 surest road to success. 



To educate is to impart knowledge, to develop by mental and moral training, 

 to cultivate and quahfy by instruction for the business and duties of life. Thomas 

 Jefferson said, " Educate and inform the whole mass of the people, enable them 

 to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve 

 them. " 



It is the chief function of this Association to educate the whole mass of our 

 fellow citizens regarding the value of wild birds, and the intimate relation that 



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