Ct)e Audubon ^octetfes 



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

 Nor yet the wild bird's song." 



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

 Connecticut), Fairfield, 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. Gav, Redlands. 



Colorado Mrs. Martha A. Shute, Denver. \ 



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. 1. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



lo-wa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Kentucky — ■. 



Louisiana Miss Anita Prino, 1449 Arabella St New Orleans. 



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 Joy Higgins, 544 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. 



Free Lectures — Free Bird Charts — Free of those who are but slightly interested in 

 Circulatirig Libraries birds, if at all. Many people of all ages 



(Read at Annual Congress of Audubon Societies held will gO tO look at pictures, merely aS pic- 



in Washington, D. c, November 19, I9o^) ^^^^^^ ^^^ subject- matter being of Secondary 

 In the above - mentioned order should importance, while the interest thus aroused 

 these three factors hold place in the educa- may be held and developed by other 

 tional work of the Audubon Societies; and methods. Thus a well-constructed, well- 

 as it is upon the worth of its educational illustrated free lecture should be the first 

 work, especially that in the public schools, equipment of all associations for bird study, 

 that the whole future of the movement for while the terms nuell- constructed and ivell- 

 bird protection hinges, the importance of illustrated have more than a mere nominal 

 these factors cannot be overestimated. significance. 



The lecture logically holds first place. Whatever may be the scope of other lec- 



as it is undoubtedly the best means of, we tures, — and if a society can afford to have 



may almost say, compelling the attention lectures of several grades all the better, — the 



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