Report of the President 



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ship at once be made available for Girl Scouts, as that organization now 

 requires that its members shall become members of the Audubon Society, 

 if they desire to obtain a certain required standing in their nature work. 



Your ofi&cers and directors have endeavored to keep in touch with impor- 

 tant legislation affecting the interests for which we labor, and by conference, 

 visits, and correspondence have sought to encourage good legislation and 

 discourage that which was otherwise in nature. Through our wide correspond- 

 ence we are naturally in constant touch with the current of thought and 



THE OLD HOME OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, "MINNELAND," JUST OFF RIVERSIDE 



DRIVE, NEW YORK CITY, WHICH, IT IS REPORTED, MAY SOON BE TORN 



AWAY TO MAKE ROOM FOR A STREET EXTENSION 



Photographed by T. Gilbert Pearson 



tendencies of public sentiment dealing with wild life and have endeavored 

 to make the most of all opportunities that arise for the bettering of general 

 conditions touching the subject. 



The following field agents have kept constantly at work in their various 

 spheres of influence: Edward H. Forbush, general agent for New England; 

 Winthrop Packard, agent for Massachusetts; Miss Frances A. Hurd, agent 

 for Connecticut; William L. Finley, agent for the Pacific Coast States; Dr. 

 Eugene Swope, working chiefly in Ohio; Mrs. Mary S. Sage, operating mainly 

 on Long Island; Arthur H. Norton, agent for Maine; and Herbert K. Job, 

 in his chosen field of applied ornithology. 



Following this report there will be given a detailed statement of their 

 splendid work. The office force, which in the spring ran as high as twenty- 

 four clerks, has, as heretofore, shown a spirit of interest and cooperation 

 which made it possible to accomplish results not obtainable with a less-devoted 

 corps of assistants. 



