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servation Award to Mr. T. E. Musselman. The award was etched and 
framed by N. ROY LINDQUIST, one of our volunteer workers, and it was 
beautifully done. Mr. Musselman was obviously very proud of the award 
and the honor. 
Speaker of the evening was Dr. Alfred Bailey, Director of the Denver 
Museum of Natural History and a Life Member of the I.A.S. He spoke of 
his lifetime interest in nature and the development of the Denver Museum. 
Dr. Bailey showed an intriguing film on his expedition to the Galapagos 
archipelago. 
The Society is especially grateful to Peter C. Petersen, Jr., who served 
as chairman of the 1965 Annual Meeting. All the complex details of the 
joint meeting ran as smoothly as clockwork. He organized six different 
field trips for each day of the meeting, presenetd a distinguished group of 
lecturers, and had the entire program printed and ready for use well in 
advance. Well done! 
A total of 175 people attended the Saturday and Sunday morning 
field trips. On Sunday, 145 species were seen by the many groups. The 
warbler migration (except for countless Tennessees) was past its peak; 
still, 23 species were identified. Also 15 species of sparrows, 9 blackbirds, 
6 vireos, 13 sandpipers, 8 flycatcher species, etc. Box lunches were served 
to 125 persons at the park near the museum. The meeting ended in an 
atmosphere of good fellowship and a feeling that two state societies had 
learned much about each other and their joint aims. I.A.S. members 
expressed their eagerness to hold future joint annual meetings with neigh- 
boring state societies. 
Cold Springs School Hcuse, Woodstock, III. 
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Report of the Committee on Pesticides 
By Mrs. Arthur M. Jens, Jr., Chairman 
Nearly five thousand reprints of “The Pesticide Menace,” which first ap- 
peared in the Audubon Bulletin, have been distributed, as have many 
copies of other pertinent literature. “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson,” 
a movie which gives both sides of the pesticides story, has been shown 
eighteen times since we purchased it four months ago. A number of these 
showings were in educational institutions. Dates lined up for the future 
include the annual camp-out of the Twilight Travelers, N.C.H.A., and the 
Conservation Conference of The Garden Club of Illinois, Inc. Affiliates are 
urged to order the film for a program. 
Members of the committee appeared in a number of programs, wrote 
many letters to government agencies, legislators, and editors of various 
newspapers. They answered letters about pesticides, and appeared at city 
council meetings to protest pesticides applications. At present, committee 
members are working for bills concerning the control of pesticides. The 
1.A.S. Pesticide Control Committee has the following members: Mrs. Andrew 
Stukalo, Downers Grove; Mrs. Leonard Witkins, Wilmette; Elton Fawks, 
Fast Moline. 
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