THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 11 
Illinois Audubon Society Affiliates 
with Chicago Academy 
of Sciences 
the following important announcements. 
At a meeting of The Chicago Academy of Sciences, November 1, 
1929, the constitution of that organization was amended to permit scien- 
tific societies to form Sections of the Academy, the members of such 
societies to be enrolled as Associate Members of the Academy. Other 
features of the amendment of its constitution defined the relationships 
that were to be assumed and the privileges accorded a scientific society 
within the organization of the Academy, and these commended them- 
selves so well to the members of the Board of Directors of The Illinois 
Audubon Society that they filed an application for admission of the 
Society to the Academy of Sciences as the “‘Section of Popular Orni- 
thology.”’ The application was formally approved at a recent meeting of 
the Scientific Governors of the Academy, and the new arrangement has 
gone into effect. 
Each member of The Illinois Audubon Society is now an Associate 
Member of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and will receive a member- 
ship card to that effect. Each member will be on the mailing list of the 
Academy and will receive its announcements and program of activities. 
The Society assumes all associate membership fees. 
The Society is authorized to hold meetings in the Academy building 
and to maintain an office and keep its property there. It is allotted space 
in the quarterly notices of the Academy for its own notices, and it has 
been assured that its activities in popularizing a knowledge of ornithol- 
ogy will meet with the cordial approval of the officers of the Academy. 
In its new environment, The Illinois Audubon Society is free to carry 
on as before. It is to retain its original name and program. Its aim will 
still be to widen the scope of its activities and service to include every 
portion of our state. Its meetings for the transaction of business or for 
popular lectures may be restricted to its own members. Other members 
of the Academy of Sciences may be admitted to its scientific meetings as 
guests. In the proceedings of the Academy of Sciences our Society will 
be referred to as the Section of Popular Ornithology, a title which it may 
affix to its official title or not, as it chooses. 
The fortunate provision for a meeting place for our members in the 
Chicago area only throws into clearer relief the lack of any provision for 
gatherings of our members at other centers in our state. This has often 
sk: Board of Directors of The Illinois Audubon Society submits 
