Ctje Audubon Societies 



" i'ou cannot with a scalpel find the poet' s soul. 

 Nor yet the wild bird's song." 



Edited by MRS. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT and WILLIAM DUTCHER 



Communications relaliiitj to tlie work of the Audubon and other Bird Protective Societies should 

 be addressed to Mrs. Wriijht, al Fairlield, Coiiii. Reports, etc., designed for this department should be 

 sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



California Mrs. Gkokge S. Gav, Redlands. 



Colorado Mrs. Martha A. Shute, Denver. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glovkr, Fairfield. 



Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore Place, Wilmington. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 2212 R street, Washington. 



Florida Mrs. I . Vanderpool, Maitland . 



GeorKia Professor H. N. Starnks, of Experiment. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk . 



Kentucky Miss Juliet O. Alves, Henderson. 



Louisiana Miss Anita Prin<;, 1449 Arabella St., New Orleans. 



Maine Mrs. C. B. Tuttle, Fairfield. 



Maryland Miss Anne Westo.n Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 229 8th ave., S. E., Minneapolis. 



Missouri AUGUST Reese, 2516 North Fourteenth street, St. Louis. 



Nebraska Miss JOY HiGGlNS, 544 South 30th street, Omaha. 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



New Jersey Miss Julia Scribner, 510 E. Front street. Plain field, N. J. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lock wood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. 



North Carolina T. Gilbert Pearson, Greensboro. 



Ohio. Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 820 West Ninth street, Cincinnati . 



Oklahoma Mrs. Adelia Holcomb, Enid. 



Oregon Miss GERTRUDE Metcalfe, 634 Williams ave., Portland. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



Rhode Island Martha R. Clarke, 89 Brown street, Providence. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston . 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



Virginia Mrs. J. C. Plant, Glencarlyn. 



Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaitks, 260 Langdon street , Mad ison . 



W^yomine Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne 



"Keep on Pedaling!" '^'^ "o^ '°^'' t)oth right and left as well as 



ahead, an upset will speedily follow. 



Ten years ago, when the world and his We are all prone to overestimate the 

 wife were striving to master the vacillating importance of initial effort, whether it be in 

 bicycle, the constant cry of the perspiring mastering a horse, a wheel, or in organ- 

 instructor who ran beside was, " Keep on izing a new movement. Of course, in 

 pedaling; if you stop you're a goner!" order to have a cooperative society there 



This concise if inelegant advice applies to must be organization, but the organization 



many things besides wheeling — and espe- should be regarded only as a platform upon 



cially to the work of bird protection. At which the members may stand united to 



the present moment thirty-odd Audubon work intelligently for reaching an end, not 



Societies are more or less securely mounted as the end itself. 



and started upon the right rord; but if, in When you often hear some one say, "Oh, 



addition to "keeping on pedaling," they yes, birds are being protected in our state, 



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