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been given consideration, and indeed, the committee on open meetings 
and lectures, of which Mr. W. I. Lyon is chairman, is at this time giving 
the subject special attention. It promises a special report in the near 
future. It may be possible to serve some area this year through the work 
of our field agent. 
This is the place for the important announcement that Mr. Orpheus 
M. Schantz has been made special field agent of the Society to conduct 
campaigns for the conservation of bird life in selected areas as directed 
by the executive committee of the Society. The committee has been 
given an appropriation and authority to co-operate with groups or 
organizations in financing such campaigns. Mr. Schantz is a well known 
lecturer, and his travel and natural history lectures are in demand. He 
is reserving some of his time for his campaigns in the field, however, and 
the executive committee invites applications for his services. 
Professor C. W. G. Eifrig of Concordia College, River Forest, has 
been a member of the Board of Directors of our Society for many years 
and needs an introduction here only in his new capacity of President of 
the Society. Professor Eifrig is a widely known ornithologist and has 
made extensive studies of bird life in various areas of our country. In the 
reorganization of the committees of the Society, the executive committee 
has been given much responsibility and Mr. Fred S. Lodge of LaGrange 
is here introduced as its chairman. The Director of The Chicago 
Academy of Sciences, Alfred M. Bailey, is a member of the committee as 
are also Frederic H. Pattee, Charles O. Decker, and W. I. Lyon. Miss 
Catherine Mitchell continues, as for so many years in the past, to serve 
as Secretary. Her name has become a synonym for devotion to the 
enterprises of the Society. 
The Society will retain its principal office at 137 S. LaSalle Street 
until the expiration of its lease, May 1. It is hoped, however, that those 
of our members who are not familiar with the Academy of Sciences will 
not wait until that time to visit the Academy. These, and all other 
members are requested to visit the office of the secretary of the Academy 
and register their names and the date in the register of the Audubon 
Society which will be left there for that purpose. Our out-of-town mem- 
bers will be well repaid if in their visits to Chicago, they reserve ample 
time to visit the Academy and study its valuable collections. 
