3£ THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



The A. O. U. Meeting 



THE Forty-First Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union was held October 9-1 1 at Cambridge, Mass. 

 Chicago was well represented both in attendance and on the pro- 

 gram. Those present from Chicago were — 



Mr. Ruthven Deane 

 Mr. William I. Lyon 

 Miss Catharine A. Mitchell 

 Mrs. Lotta A. Cleveland 

 Mr. Nathan Leopold, Jr. 

 Mr. T. E. Musselman, a member of the Illinois Audubon Society, 

 from Quincy, 111., also attended the meeting. 



Miss Mitchell spoke on the Status of Sanibel Island, Fla., as a State 

 Bird Preserve, and Mr. Lyon gave his experiences in bird banding. 



Next year the A. O. U. meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., and 

 it is hoped that many more will attend from Chicago and vicinity. 



Third National Conference on State Parks 



THE Third National Conference on State Parks met at Turkey 

 Run, Indiana, on May 7, 8, and 9, and there were one hundred and 

 fifty delegates in attendance from twenty-two states. They had three days 

 of sessions as enthusiastic as the sessions the birds were holding among 

 the blossoms of the dogwoods and the redbuds, among the hemlocks 

 and tulip trees, and the rocks and ferns of Turkey Run. Reports of 

 problems and progress in all the states were discussed from every angle, 

 and helpful suggestions and resolutions are now on the way back, all 

 over the country, to everyone interested in the protection of our native 

 landscapes. 



The Drainage 

 of the Upper Mississippi Bottoms 



AGAIN the conservationist is confronted with a well-meant drain- 

 /-\ age project, primarily aimed to release useless lowlands and 

 -*- -*- swamps that they may be made into tillable agricultural 

 lands. The project is practically identical with all others that have 

 been carried out in years past for the reclamation of sloughs, marshes, 

 ponds, and lakes into fertile acres. The outcome of this, it has been 

 predicted by those who are in a position to know, will also prove as 

 flat a failure as have other similar drainage schemes of the past. 



