f^ije Mutiution ci^ocietiesi 



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. 



Telephone, Columbus 7327 



William Dutcher, 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. 



ANNUAL MEETING 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies 

 assembled in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York City, on 

 October 27 and 28, 1919. On the evening 

 of October 27 a public meeting to honor 

 the memory of Theodore Roosevelt was 

 held, in connection with the Museum 

 authorities, at which the following pro- 

 gram was rendered: 



"Roosevelt and Bird Protection," by 

 T. Gilbert Pearson; "Roosevelt the Na- 

 ture-Lover," by Frank M. Chapman; 

 "Roosevelt and American Animals, "Ern- 

 est Thompson Seton; "Roosevelt's Africa," 

 Carl E. Akeley; and "Roosevelt on the Rio 

 Roosevelt," by George K. Cherrie. 



The annual business meeting of the 

 Association was called to order at 10 

 o'clock A.M. on October 28, Dr. T. S. 

 Palmer, First Vice-President presiding. 

 The convention was welcomed to the city 

 and to the Museum in an address by Dr. 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Museum Director. 

 Reports of the Secretary, Treasurer, and 

 Auditing Committee, which were read and 

 approved, will be found printed elsewhere 

 in this issue of Bird-Lore. 



Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright and Dr. 



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George Bird Grinnell, whose terms of 

 ofiice as directors had expired, were re- 

 elected, and Prof. Barton W. Evermann, 

 of California, was added to the list of the 

 Advisory Board of Directors. 



The following Field Agents of the Asso- 

 ciation told of their work the past year in 

 their several fields of operation: Edward 

 H. Forbush, for New England; Dr. Eugene 

 Swope, Ohio; Winthrop Packard, Massa- 

 chusetts; Miss Frances A. Hurd, Connec- 

 ticut; Arthur H. Norton, Maine; Mrs. 

 Mary S. Sage, Long Island; and Herbert 

 K. Job in charge of "Applied Ornithology." 



The meeting also heard interesting talks 

 by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, President 

 of the Connecticut Audubon Society; T. F. 

 Mcllwraith of the Hamilton (Ontario) 

 Bird Protection Society; B. S. Bowdish, 

 Secretary of the New Jersey Audubon 

 Society; Mrs. F. H. Cofi&n and Mr. Davis 

 of the Scranton (Pennsylvania) Bird Club; 

 and Prof. H. L. Madison, Secretary of the 

 Rhode Island Audubon Society. 



The members and guests of the Asso- 

 ciation enjoyed luncheon together in the 

 Museum Cafe. In the afternoon a most 

 interesting Educational Conference, under 

 the leadership of Edward H. Forbush, was 



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