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 Dutcher, President 

 Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 

 F. A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer 



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

 come a member, and all are welcome. 



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

 Wild Birds and Animals: 



$5.00 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100.00 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000.00 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000.00 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000.00 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Audubon Work in Alaska 



It is with great pleasure that we 

 announce the inauguration of Audubon 

 work in Alaska. A public-spirited mem- 

 ber of the Association has recently sub- 

 scribed $5,000 for this purpose. 



In its work there, the Association will 

 have the active cooperation of the United 

 States Biological Survey in the matter of 

 extending protection to the breeding 

 colonies of water-birds on the Govern- 

 ment Reservations, and elsewhere on the 

 Coast. In the schools, toward which the 

 major part of our attention will be directed, 

 we shall have the hearty support of the 

 United States Bureau of Education. It 

 is planned, during the coming year, to 

 placp in the hands of every pupil in the 

 schools of Alaska literature in reference 

 to the birds of that territory. An artist 

 is now engaged in making drawings with 

 which to illustrate the leaflets to be used. 



Mr. G. Willett, of Los Angeles, recently 

 sailed for Sitka, as the representative of 

 this association. During the present 

 summer he will serve as warden at the 

 Saint Lazaria Bird Reservation and 

 gather information regarding the bird life 

 of that region. He will also make a 

 report on various phases of the needs 

 found existing in Alaska in reference to 

 bird and game protection. 



When one considers the rapidity with 

 which many form of aquatic bird life 



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are disappearing from our country, the 

 importance of bird protection in Alaska 

 becomes quite apparent. Here is the sum- 

 mer home of innumerable birds which 

 are mercilessly shot on their southern 

 migrations. As this work unfolds, we 

 shall expect to have some exceedingly 

 interesting developments to report. — 

 T. G. P. 



The Late Captain Davis 



Captain M. B. Davis, field agent for 

 this Association in Texas, died at his 

 home in Waco, on June 18, 191 2. He 

 had been exceedingly active ever since 

 his appointment, in 1904, and by his 

 death Texas loses a most valuable citizen, 

 and the Audubon movement one of its 

 most earnest and effective workers. Our 

 readers may recall an extended account 

 of his very remarkable career which was 

 published in Bird-Lore volume XII, 

 1910, p. 212. Captain Davis was sixty- 

 six years of age on the 14th of last Oc- 

 tober, and had been active in bird- and 

 game-protective matters many years 

 before he became connected with the 

 Association. President William Dutcher 

 wrote him, a few years ago, that the 

 President of the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies must doff his hat 

 to the grand old bird protectionist of 

 Texas, as the one who had been longest 

 in the field fighting the enemies of bird 

 destruction. The following beautiful 



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