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 ; 



SS.oo annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 fioo.oo 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 



President Dutcher 



Mr. Butcher's condition remains un- 

 changed. On October 19, 191 2, two years 

 will have passed since he was visited by 

 the illness which left him speechless and 

 practically helpless. With marvelous 

 fortitude he has patiently born an afiflic- 

 tion to which most men would have suc- 

 cumbed, and at no time has he lost interest 

 in the progress of the work which he 

 inaugurated, and its continued develop- 

 ment has been one of his main sources of 

 pleasure. 



Notice to Members 



The regular annual meeting of the 

 National Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties will be held on Tuesday, October 29, 

 191 2, in the Museum of Natural History, 

 West 77th Street, New York City. The 

 notices called for by the by-laws will be 

 mailed to all members of the Association 

 within the statutory time limit. 



The past year having been one of the 

 most active that the Association has ever 

 experienced, it is believed that the reports 

 presented at the meeting will be of pecu- 

 liar interest. 



We hope that all members will bear in 

 mind the date of the meeting and make 

 every effort to be present. 



T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary. 



James Buckland 



Mr. James Buckland, of the Royal 

 Colonial Institute of London, the indomi- 

 table English bird protectionist, has won 

 his first real victory in the struggle to 

 obtain the passage of the Plumage Bill 

 now pending in Parliament; it has passed 

 its first reading by a majority of 328 to 48. 



For many years Mr. Buckland has 

 been devoting a large part of his time to 

 arousing public sentiment in Great Britain 

 to the necessity of suppressing the traffic 

 in the feathers of wild birds, especially 

 those which have been shipped illegally 

 and otherwise from the various British 

 dependencies. He has prepared and dis- 

 tributed numerous addresses to the people, 

 and has lectured with great frequency on 

 the evils of the plumage trade. 



In a recent "appeal to the public to 

 support the Plumage Bill," Mr. Buckland 

 gives the following reasons why, to his 

 mind, this measure should be enacted: 



"i. Because Nature has been at work 

 millions of years creating these marvelous 

 pieces of mechanism and beauty which 

 today are being destroyed utterly because 

 woman is unable to make their beauty a 

 subject of thought but as it has to do with 

 the bedecking of herself. 



"2. Because plumage, to be of value to 

 the trade, must be obtained during the 

 breeding season. The only way by which 



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