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Madam, —I think Mr. A. C. Furner’s suggestion in the April issue of the

Magazine is well worth serious consideration by our Council.


Personally I should prefer the monogram pjf* with a bird in miniature

as a Crest (or without the bird). Oy)


P. W. Teague.


PS.—I hope it will be something much smaller than the O.P.S. Pheasant,,

but whatever it is, let it be plain and good.



Madam, —You may be interested to hear that British Glues and

Chemicals, Ltd., recently wrote to me saying they had had applications for

samples of the Iodized Mineral Salts from many parts of the world since

my article appeared in the Avicultural Magazine last July. One applica¬

tion is from the South Sea Islands.


Roughly speaking they have had forty letters from the United Kingdom

and some half dozen or more from all parts of the world. Our Magazine is

indeed widely read. I can vouch for this from the enormous number of letters

I received after my first article on Gouldians in 1932. I can truthfully say

I had letters from all over the world including such remote places as Alaska.

I have no interest in the firm and my only desire is to help other aviculturists r

especially those belonging to our own Society.


P. W. Teague.



REVIEW


Adventures in Bird Protection. By Thomas Gilbert Pearson.


Illustrated. Published by D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc.,.


New York and London. 15s.


This book chronicles the passage of bird protective laws, and

formation of an Audubon Society in North Carolina in 1901 by William

Dutcher, Chairman of the Committee on Bird Protection of the American

Ornithologists’ Union, and the organization four years later of the

National Association of Audubon Societies with T. Gilbert Pearson,

writer of this book, as Secretary. On this foundation Pearson, during

the succeeding quarter of a century, built up a structure which exceeds

that of any similar institution in the world, besides stimulating interest

in organized bird protection in more than a score of foreign countries.


It is a long book, over 400 closely printed pages, but intensely

interesting, and no bird lover would not read it with avidity from

beginning to end. That bird protection was an urgent necessity is

obvious from the accounts of wanton destruction and horrible cruelty

which were rife throughout the state, where every boy had a gun and



