EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



William Butcher, President 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer 

 Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all' are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Form of Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the 

 National Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties will be held in the American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York City, on 

 October 30, 1917. 



The first business session will be held at 

 10 o'clock A.M. 



In the evening before, beginning at 8 

 o'clock, it is planned to give a public 

 entertainment, including moving pictures, 



in the main lecture-hall of the Museum. 

 All members are urged to attend, and the 

 public is cordially invited to all of the 

 sessions. 



It is believed that this will be an espe- 

 cially interesting meeting in view of the 

 large volume of work carried forward the 

 past year by the Association, its field 

 workers, and its affiliated organizations 

 throughout the country. 



THE MIGRATORY BIRD LAW 



The Enabling Act to give force and 

 power to the treaty between the United 

 States and Canada regarding the protec- 

 tion of migratory birds still hangs fire in 

 Congress, although this Association and 

 many other organizations and a great 

 number of individuals have brought every 

 possible pressure to bear to have the sub- 

 ject considered as a war measure. After 

 intense work, the full measure of which 

 will never be realized by any one man, the 

 matter was finally brought to a vote in the 

 Senate July 30, 19 17. It was passed by a 

 large majority, but thus far it has been 

 found impossible to get action in the 

 House on the measure. Let no one think 



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for a moment, however, that this bill will 

 ever be lost sight of, as the Association 

 and its friends are constantly in touch 

 with the situation. Every member of the 

 House has been canvassed and his point of 

 view ascertained. 



In the meantime, however, the Canadian 

 Government has gone forward with its 

 Enabling Act, and a letter recently 

 received from Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, of 

 Ottawa, states that on August 29, 191 7, 

 final action was taken. 



The whole fight for this treaty and its 

 enforcement, therefore, has been won with 

 the single exception of the final vote in 

 our House of Representatives. 

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