30 THE AUDUBONTSULL ESE 
The A. O. U. Meeting 
HE Forty-First Stated Meeting of the American Ornitholocisem 
Union was held October g-11 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, IIl., 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 
HE Third National Conference on State Parks met at Turkey 
Run, Indiana, on May 7, 8,andg, and there were one hundred and 
fifty delegatesin attendance from twenty-twostates. 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 
GAIN the conservationist is confronted with a well-meant drain- 
A 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. 
