THE  ASSOCIATED  COMMITTEES 
FOR 
WILD  LIFE  CONSERVATION 
REPRESENTING 
COMMITTEE  PERSONNEL 
Francis  H.  Allen 
Charles  B.  Floyd 
Mrs.  Robert  B.  Greenough 
Ralph  Lawson 
Robert  Walcott 
George  C.  Warren 
Mrs.  Sidney  M.  Williams, 
For  Mass.  Audubon  Society 
The 
MASSACHUSETTS  AUDUBON  SOCIETY 
The 
MASSACHUSETTS  FISH  AND  GAME 
ASSOCIATION 
And 
THE  FEDERATION  OF  THE  BIRD  CLUBS 
OF  NEW  ENGLAND,  Inc. 
ROOM  833,  50  CONGRESS  STREET 
Boston,  Mass. 
Chairman  .  .  JOHN  L.  SALTONSTALL 
Treasurer  .  .  GEORGE  C.  WARREN 
Secretary  .  .  LAURENCE  B.  FLETCHER 
Edward  Brooks 
Frank  W.  Hallowell 
Robert  A.  Leeson 
John  C.  Phillips 
John  L.  Saltonstall, 
For  Mass.  Fish&  QameAss’n 
Gorham  Brooks 
Laurence  B.  Fletcher 
Edward  H.  Forbush 
Harris  A.  Reynolds 
Charles  L.  Whittle, 
For  The  Federation  of  Bird 
Clubs  of  N.  E.  Inc. 
COP! 
April  30,  1928 
Mr.  Laurence  B.  Fletcher 
Secretary  of  the  Associated 
Committees  for  wild  Life 
Conservation, 
50  Congress  street, 
Boston,  Massachusetts . 
Dear  Mr.  Fletcher; 
May  I  express  to  you  personally  and  to 
the  chairman  Mr.  Saltonstall  and  the  other  members  of 
your  committees  my  grateful  appreciation  of  the  reception 
tendered  me  at  the  Banquet  on  April  24.  I  should  have 
thanked  you  all  at  the  time,  but  was  suffering  with 
throat  trouble  and  feared  that  an  attempt  to  speak  in 
public  might  bring  on  a  fit  of  coughing,  which  i  was 
struggling  to  suppress . 
My  only  excuse  for  delaying  so  long  in 
writing  to  you  is  that  I  have  been  under  the  doctor's 
care,  who  prescribed  among  other  things,  a  few  days  of 
complete  rest.  I  should  not  have  been  present  on  the 
24th  had  I  not  promised  to  be  there . 
Permit  me  to  say  that  nothing  could 
have  pleased  me  more  than  the  engrossed  testimonial 
with  the  signatures  of  the  friends  appended.  I  shall 
prize  it  highly  and  shall  remember  the  occasion  with  heart¬ 
felt  gratitude  as  long  as  memory  endures. 
Yours  cordially, 
'  (signed)  B.  H.  Forbush 
^  H  .  j  2-5~  _  fA. 
k'  ^A  JiArwJil 
