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John Briscoe, no license 1 2.90 



A. C. Gibbs, 1 brown thrasher . .' 12.60 



Emery Miller, 2 woodpeckers 12.60 



Fred Holtz, 2 robins, joined the army and not prosecuted 



Pete Palmeri, no license 27.60 



A glance at the list shows the prevailing ancestry among the offenders 

 and reveals the necessity of a campaign of instruction in the Italian 

 language. Mr. Rinehart found that the item in the hunting license per- 

 mitting the killing of English sparrows was usually offered as an excuse for 

 killing any other species of sparrow. 



Roy Monroe Langdon — 

 Secretary-Treasurer 



The new Secretary-Treasurer of the 

 Illinois Audubon Society, Mr. Roy Monroe 

 Langdon of Maywood, was born in Chi- 

 cago on January 2, 1887, and educated in 

 the schools of his native city and state. 

 After graduating from the University of 

 Illinois in 1911, he entered the employ of 

 Butler Brothers, wholesale merchants, 

 where for three and one-half years he 

 worked for his fellow alumnus, the late 

 Homer A. Stillwell, then president and 

 general manager of that concern. In 1915 

 he gave up that position to become assist- 

 ant superintendent for the Committee of 

 Fifteen in Chicago, which office he has recently resigned. 



Mr. Langdon attracted the attention of the Illinois Audubon Society 

 by his effective work as secretary of the Maywood Bird Club. The Winter 

 Bulletin, 1917-1918, had a three page description of the work of that Club 

 and gave some of the details of its activities in order to show other clubs 

 how to maintain a successful organization. Under Mr. Langdon's leadership 

 the Maywood Bird Club not only grappled with local problems but under- 

 took to help solve problems national in scope. The "cat problem" was one 

 of these. The "cat circular" which Mr. Langdon wrote and which the 

 Illinois Audubon Society printed and circulated for the Maywood Bird 

 Club was the outcome of Mr. Langdon's efforts to direct the activities of 

 the latter club into practical channels. A copy of this circular was sent out 

 to each of the members of this Society with the Spring and Summer, 1918, 

 Bulletin. From various places in the United States have come expressions 

 of outspoken approval of the circular and numerous requests have been 

 made for copies of it. The Illinois Audubon Society was glad to elect Mr. 

 Langdon a Director in June, 1918, and on December 4, 1918, he was 

 elected Secretary-Treasurer, in order that the Society might avail itself of 

 his aggressiveness and enthusiasm for Audubon propaganda to do greater 

 and more effective work for the conservation of bird life in Illinois. 



