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Congratulatory Vote and Memorandum of the Societe Protectoire 

 DEs Animaux de Paris (Society for the Protection of Animals), 

 Regarding the Enactment by Congress of a Law for the Ex- 

 clusion from the United States and Its Dependencies of Im- 

 portations of Wild Birds' Plumage for Millinery Purposes 

 (Translation.) 

 Asnieres, Seine, France, September 18, 1913. 

 At the monthly meeting of the Society for the Protection of Animals 

 of Paris, held on September 18, 1913,, Mons. A. F. Dupont read to the 

 Society letters received by him from Mr. William T. Hornaday, Direc- 

 tor of the New York Zoological Park. The Society listened to the 

 statement made by Mr. Dupont of the energetic campaign prosecuted 

 in the United States throughout the past six months, which ended on 

 September 3rd in a complete victory for the protective societies, wherein 

 those societies obtained from the American Senate the prohibition of 

 the importation of wild birds' plumage, and the aboHtion of the traffic 

 in feathers and skins of slaughtered wild birds, in the United States. 



The Society requested the President to express its great satisfaction 

 to the members of the protective societies for this great victory, and 

 convey its heartfelt congratulations to the chief promoters of this 

 world-wide success, i. e. : 



First — To the New York Zoological Society and Mr. William T. 

 Hornaday. 



Second — To the National Association of Audubon Societies and Mr. 

 T. Gilbert Pearson. 

 Third — To the New York Women's League for Animals. 

 Fourth — To the American Humane Association. 



Fifth — To the Senators who by main force snatched the victory from 

 defeat, particularly as follows : George P. McLean, George E. Chamber- 

 lain, Harry Lane, James A. O'Gorman, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, John 

 Sharp Williams, Thomas P. Gore, Nathan P. Bryan, Augustus O. 

 Bacon and Benjamin F. Shiveley. 



The meeting hears the call made upon France by Mr. Hornaday for 

 similar action, and relies upon the Paris Society for the Protection of 

 Animals to begin at once a campaign to secure in France the same 

 victory. 



The meeting sends to the National Congress of the American Humane 

 Association,, to be held at Rochester, New York, on October 13th, an 

 expression of its fraternal sympathy, and its hope that new victories 

 may crown the labor of the Congress. 



Action proposed, supported and obtained by 



A. F. Dupont, 

 Corresponding Member of the American Association. 



