8 THEY AUDUBON, BU DEE 
Our New Quarters 
DOING OUR bit to revive a fine old Chicago custom of reserving May 1 for 
Moving Day, the Illinois Audubon Society — a few days late but still in 
the first week of May — moved its headquarters from the Chicago Academy 
of Sciences in Lincoln park into the Chicago Natural History museum, at 
Roosevelt rd. and Lake Shore dr., where our directors’ meetings have been 
held for several years. Space and other considerations prompted the move. 
Once we have figured out the floor plan of this immense structure and 
criented ourselves in relation to the dinosaurs and the mummies, we expect 
to be quite happy in our new home, which abounds with ornithologists and 
ornithological displays ranging from the archaeopteryx thru the extinct 
passenger pigeon to the birds we know best today. 
The change will affect members principally in that the Audubon Screen 
Tours presented each year by the Society will be given this fall and winter 
in the James Simpson theater in the museum. Of five scheduled lectures, 
two will be given Saturday afternoon, two Sunday afternoon, and one 
Monday evening. The schedule:: 
October 2, Afternoon...-.....................--- Karl H. Maslowski 
November 28, Evening......................----..-. George M. Link 
January 7, Afternoon....-....... George and Helen Hadley 
February 18, Afternoon....___...-......--.-..- George M. Sutton 
April 16, Afternoon......................---- Roger Tory Peterson 
The change from evening to afternoon hours is being made experi- 
mentally to see whether attendance will be better. If you like or do not 
like the change, let us know. We wish to please the largest number possi- 
ble and at the same time attract as many prospective new members as 
possible to the lectures, which will continue to be free to the public. Bring 
your friends and encourage them to join the Society. Our new quarters 
can accommodate many more persons than previously and we wish to fill 
every seat. 
Capacity crowds of members and friends attended all the screen tours 
presented last season, which ended April 27 with a stirring conservation 
plea by Alexander Sprunt, Jr., who found that a large proportion of this 
audience here was made up of persons who had earlier enjoyed his incom- 
parable leadership on bird tours of Bull’s Island, off South ‘Carolina, and 
the Lake Okeechobee region of Florida. Encouraging was the fact that 
this lecture, like most of the others, was well attended by boys and girls 
of high school age. We must make these young people welcome ‘and encour- 
age them to learn more of the joys of wildlife study and the value of sound 
conservation practices. 
Mrs. Laurel Reynolds opened the lecture series last October with beauti- 
ful color motion pictures taken in her California garden — which must be 
only slightly smaller than Los Angeles county considering all she showed 
us. Her hummingbirds were delightful. 
Allan D. Cruickshank demonstrated what can be found within an hour’s 
drive of Times Square, New York City — a variety hard to believe unless 
