Ct)e ^utiubon ^ociettes 



" Vou cannot with a scalpel find the poet's soul. 

 Nor yet the wild bird's songy 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairtield, 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 department 

 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 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



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



District of Columbia- Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 2212 R street, Washington. 



Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Io^va Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Maine Mrs. C. B. Tuttle, Fairfield. 



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



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



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. 



Missouri August Reese, 2516 North Fourteenth street, St. Louis. 



Nebraska Miss Jay Higgins Lee, 554 South 30th street, Omaha. 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



New Jersey „ Miss Julia Scribner, 510 E. Front street, Plainfield, N. J. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. 



North Carolina T. Gilbert Pearson, Greensboro. 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 820 West Ninth street, Cincinnati. 



Oklahoma Mrs. Adelia Holcomb, Enid. 



Oregon Miss Gertrude Metcalfe, 634 Williams ave., Portland. 



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



Rhode Island Martha R. Clarke, 89 Brown street. Providence. 



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



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



Virginia Mrs. J. C. Plant, Glencarlyn. 



Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaites, 260 Langdon street, Madison. 



■Wyoming Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne. 



The Spread of Bird Protection "^""^ °^ ^^^''' J°'"'"g ^^"^^' '° *° 'P^^'^' 



across debatable and remote borderlands, 



Bird protection has not only come to stay, where individual effort, however earnest, 

 but the legislative aid it is receiving, as cannot aid the migrant birds. This in- 

 well as the commotion it is raising in terest must not cease at our own shores 

 hostile quarters, must convince the most even; we can aid in hastening international 

 careless that it has now passed safely protection by refusing to receive at our 

 through that crucial period of "first en- ports of entry birds of other countries 

 thusiasm " so fatal to many well-inten- allied to our own species, for it is only 

 tioned reforms of the genus Vad. in this way that the universal temptation 



The increasing list of state societies, of plume-hunting, for a certain class, can 



Oklahoma and Nebraska being the last be cured, in spite of some short-sighted 



recruits, tells of local interest ; while at the and selfish arguments to the contrary that 



recent meeting of the National Committee were successfully combatted in the pages 



at Washington, D. C, a plan of work of this journal. 



was outlined that will not only strengthen It is Bird-Lore's aim, especially in this 



and supplement the educational work of department, to record all matters bearing 



the state societies, but supply the only upon what is known as the Audubon 



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