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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



vincing manner what "rest areas" mean to migrating birds. There are 

 various favored areas in our state which should be set apart in a similar 

 way for refuges of this kind. There should be a chain of these areas the 

 entire length of the state. It is to be hoped that local sentiment in these 

 areas will be stimulated and public support assured that will justify Chief 

 Warden Bradford in taking the decisive steps. 



Orpheus M. Schantz. 



Elgin Audubon Society 



Mr. B. F. Berryman 



The Elgin Audubon Society will cele- 

 brate its sixth birthday next June. It has 

 recently taken out incorporation papers 

 and is entering upon a most promising- 

 phase of activity. The City of Elgin has 

 recently turned over to the Society for its 

 exclusive use the Museum, a large hand- 

 some brick building situated in one of the 

 city parks. This is being remodeled and 

 furnished and here will be housed the 

 specimens belonging to the City and the 

 Society. The Society has performed an 

 important educational service each year 

 by its annual exhibits where photographs, 

 stuffed specimens, nests, eggs, grasses, 

 ferns, fossils, etc., are displayed. Large 

 crowds are attracted in this way and the 

 Society has demonstrated its fitness to 

 make good use of the Museum building. For the last three years Mr. B. F. 

 Berryman has been President of the Society and it was under his leader- 

 ship that the Museum has been acquired. Through his efforts the City 

 Council passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to molest birds, their 

 nests or eggs in the city limits. The Society is now planning a campaign 

 to make all of the country within five miles of Elgin a bird sanctuary by 

 securing pledges of land owners to protect bird life on their farms, and 

 prohibit hunters from trespassing. Meetings of the Society are once a 

 month at 6 :30 P. M. beginning with a buffet supper followed by a business 

 meeting and an interesting program. 

 It now has a membership of two hun- 

 dred thirty-one and at its monthly 

 meetings there is an attendance from 



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sixty to seventy-five. 



Mr. Berryman is strongly in favor 

 of an Audubon Society in every city 

 and an annual meeting of delegates 

 from these societies to interchange 

 ideas and thus build up a strong and 

 powerful state organization that will 

 have a wide influence for the protec- 

 tion and conservation of wild life. E i g i n Museum 



