THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IIl., 60605 
Number 130 June, 1964 
THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE 
By Raymond Mostek 
Two minor projects have occupied my attention for the past few months. 
One concerned the donation by the Illinois Audubon Society of back 
issues of the AUDUBON BULLETIN to several college libraries. After 
much gathering, sorting and packing, and with the able assistance of one 
of our Regional Secretaries, Mrs. Elizabeth Funk Peacock of Lincoln, 
Illinois, we were able to distribute five sets of our journal. These will later 
be bound by the libraries concerned and placed on the shelves. 
Ornithologists, conservationists, scientists and college students now 
can find the Illinois AUDUBON BULLETIN in many parts of the state. 
Complete or almost complete files are available at the Chicago Academy 
of Science in Lincoln Park; the Chicago Natural History Museum in Grant 
Park; the Chicago Public Library at Michigan Ave. and Washington St.; 
the Natural History Survey at Urbana; the University Library at Cham- 
paign; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Principia College at Elsah; 
Western Illinois University at Macomb; Illinois State Normal at Normal; 
Northern Illinois University at DeKalb, and the Conservation Center of the 
Denver Public Library in Denver, Colo. Other public libraries in Illinois 
and the middlewest also have many numbers of the BULLETIN. Some 
back issues are now exhausted. 
The second project involved the binding of the AUDUBON BULLETIN 
into permanent volumes. This has never been done before, despite the 67- 
year history of the Society. The BULLETIN has now been bound into eight 
separate volumes comprising the years 1916-20; 1921-25; 1926-35; 1936-40; 
1941-45; 1946-50; 1951-55; and 1956-60. The first issue appeared in the 
spring of 1916, and for several years it was issued biennially, with each 
number containing about 48 pages. 
The early issues differ in many respects from the current copies: 
black-and-white photographs galore decorated almost every page; the 
articles were much longer than now; there were reports from many parts 
of the state hardly ever heard from today; there were bird clubs in Barring- 
ton, Maywood, and Oak Park 40 years ago; there was a great deal of news 
about the new Cook County Forest Preserve System; the prime enemy of 
that day seemed to be the illegal hunter and poacher. 
In these volumes are mentioned some of the greatest Illinois conserva- 
tionists and ornithologists — Stephen Alfred Forbes, Robert Ridgway, 
W. I. Lyon, T. E. Musselman and Benjamin Gault. In a later issue of the 
BULLETIN I shall dwell at greater length on these men and their deeds. 
Notes from the Nest 
Let it not be said and to our shame, that Rachel Carson lived in vain. 
Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut said recently that the new 
Federal Environmental Health Center, which may be built in Maryland, 
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