d)e ^utiubon Societies 



" You cannot with a scalpel Jind the poeV s soul, 

 Nor yet the wild bird's song-." 



Edited by MRS. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT and WILLIAM DUTCHER 



Communications relating to the work of the Audubon and other Bird Protective Societies should 

 be addressed to Mrs. Wright, at Fairfield, Conn. 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. 



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. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Georgia Professor H. N. Starnes, of Experiment. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Kentucky Miss Juliet O. Alves. Henderson. 



Louisiana Miss Anita Pring, 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, 229 8th ave., S. E., Minneapolis. 



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. Lock wood, 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 Gertrltde 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. 



they are vaguely aware that there is some 



Meditations on the Posting of Bird ^ r i,-u-,.- *u- i *u * •* i:=o ^r^u, 



° sort or prohibition, think that it applies only 



^^ to visibly private grounds, — they do not un- 



Those of us who live in states having derstand that it is a state fiat. Certain it is 



fairly satisfactory laws for bird protection that while the more intelligent class of the 



are wont to ponder every fall as to whether Community are usually cognizant of the 



it will ever be possible to have them satis- laws, it is even for them no easy matter to 



factorily enacted. Not only are the game- keep abreast of the various changes that are 



wardens few and far between and the con- likely to follow each legislative session, 



stables curiously near-sighted, but other- while to the newly arrived foreign element 



wise conservative citizens frequently main- unable to read English who, together with 



tain that to prosecute offenders too vigor- cats, are the birds' worst enemies, how can 



ously is both impolitic and inexpedient, as we expect them to give heed to that they 



very many of the violators are wholly un- have never heard ? The first step is to ren- 



aware of the existence of the statutes, or, if der each community thoroughly informed. 



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