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HISTORY AND WORK OK THE 
in the Audubon Society. In fact, the Audubon movement 
grew out of the Ornithological Union. Dr. George B. Grin- 
nell w^as a member of the first committee organized for bird 
protection by the Union in 1885. Dr. Grinnell was editor 
of Forest and Stream and in 1886 he organized the first 
Audubon Society. This movement made considerable prog- 
ress until 1896, when the movement languished for a time, 
but took root again and is still progressing. The scientists 
and practical men did not desert the cause. It is the mere 
sentimentalists who have fallen by the wayside. 
The Audubonists of this country have been the means of 
arousing the ^lexican and some of the South American coun- 
tries by convincing them that they are losing a most valuable 
asset in the destruction of their birds and active steps are 
being taken by these countries to protect them. The Audu- 
bon Societies were instrumental in having President Roose- 
velt set aside many of the National reserves for birds. The 
Audubon Society has raised money to supply wardens for 
these reservations and is today spending money to care for 
the gulls on islands in Lake Superior and Lake Michigan 
that belong to the State of Michigan. These gulls were 
killed and shipped to the millinery centers and the largest 
gulleries were on the verge of extermination. The State of 
Michigan did not care, nor its game wardens or other officers. 
Credit is due to Prof. AM B. Barrows, of the Michigan Agri- 
cultural College for calling attention to these places. 
The Audubon Society has done more to reach the schools 
than any other organization. It has also aroused the edu- 
cated, thinking masses in the community and commanded the 
use of their pens and thought. The National Society has 
been instrumental in securing the passage of the ‘‘Model” 
law in a majority of the States where the state societie*^ 
would have been helpless. 
In many of the Southern States robins, rice birds (bob-o- 
links), cedar waxwings and other song birds were eaten, 
d^he Audubon Society now has societies and model laws in 
all these states. In North Carolina and South Carolina the 
Audubon Societies receive the fees paid for hunters’ licenses, 
and this amount averages from ten to eleven thousand dol- 
lars yearly, d'he sum is given over to warden service and 
