50 EER AUD‘ LEB ONSS Gils eee 
Personals 
Sits: the publication of the last Bulletin, Mr. Benjamin T. Gault 
has returned from a two-year study of the birds of the west coast 
of Ireland. Mr. Gault has brought back with him much new 
knowledge of this sparsely settled portion of the Emerald Isle. Later 
our readers will, no doubt, hear more about Mr. Gault’s fascinating 
experiences. 
As the Bulletin goes to press Miss Catharine A. Mitchell, Secretary 
of the Illinois Audubon Society,is about to leave with a group of friends 
from Northampton, Massachusetts, for a month’s trip to Alaska. Miss 
Mitchell’s love of the birds and the out-of-doors will enable her to 
bring back a very graphic story of her journey. 
The president of the Illinois Audubon Society, Mr. O. M. Schantz, 
was asked to take part in the Wild Life School at McGregor, Iowa, as 
a member of the faculty. He spent the week of August 7-13 lecturing 
on different subjects and assisting in the leading of out-of-door excur- 
sions. Dr.H.C.Oberholser of the Biological Survey, Washington, D.C., 
and one of the directors of the Wild Life School, stopped over in Chi- 
cago on his way to McGregor to consult with members of the Ridgway 
Memorial Committee, Messrs. Percival B. Coffin, Stephen S. Gregory, 
Jr., and O. M. Schantz. 
Dr. E. W. Nelson, has announced his retirement as Chief of the 
Biological Survey in order that he may devote his entire time to arrang- 
ing the vast store of information he has gathered in the study of wild 
birds and animals during the past fifty years. Dr. Nelson is being 
succeeded by Paul G. Redington, who has been Assistant Chief of the 
Forest Service. Through this work he has been particularly fitted to 
succeed in charge of the Biological Survey. 
Bulletins of the Department of Agriculture show the effectiveness 
with which the Federal Game Wardens are punishing violators of the 
Migratory-Bird Treaty Act. These men are constantly taking their 
lives in their hands for the violator is usually a desperate man and will 
resist arrest even to the extent of killing a warden. 
Mr. W. I. Lyon of Waukegan accompanied by Mr. Miller of Racine 
has gone north on his annual tour to band gulls and terns. Mr. Lyon 
and Mr. Miller were equipped with about 7,000 bird bands and we will 
soon begin to hear more of the results of these bird-banding activities 
from Mr. Lyon or his assistant. 
