8 EERE AUDUBON Fo Osi Esa 
To the Members of the Illinois Audubon Society 
From the President 
Your board of directors has met regularly and transacted what busi- 
ness came before it. The first meeting of this season, after summer 
vacation, was a sorrowful one, as two very active and useful members 
of the society and the board, Miss Catharine Mitchell, the secretary, 
and Mr. William I. Lyon, had departed this life, both due to heart 
attack, that great modern destroyer of lives. An appreciation of 
their personalities and service appears elsewhere in this number. Our 
new secretary, Miss Doris A. Plapp, daughter of a naturalist father, 
instructor in biology in Lane Technical High School, is as loyal and 
energetic a student of nature and devotee of conservation as was 
Miss Mitchell. 
One result of the deliberations of the directors may be seen 
in the make-up of the present number of the BULLETIN. It was 
thought that more good could be done, more interest awakened and 
sustained, if we were to publish the BULLETIN four times a year. 
Of lectures, we had an interesting one by our former co-director, 
Mr. Alfred M. Bailey, now director of the Colorado Museum of Natural 
History, located in the city of Denver. His lecture, entitled “Filming 
the Golden Eagle,” was very well attended. The first half of the meet- 
ing was devoted to a memorial to Miss Mitchell, in which representa- 
tives of various natural history and conservation societies, of which 
she had been a member or secretary, feelingly voiced their appreciation 
of and admiration for her unselfish services in the cause of wildlife. 
The next lecture will be on the evening of April 7th, at the Academy 
of Sciences, Lincoln Park, by Dr. O. S. Pettingill of Carleton College, 
whose moving pictures of bird-life are truly wonderful. 
Now it is up to our members to get busy. Remember, the goal 
we should have in mind as an Audubon society is to be able to employ 
a full-time worker in the field, to travel up and down the state and 
rouse the interest of young and old, to form local societies, fire them 
with enthusiasm for conservation, so we can better do the work we 
have set for ourselves to accomplish. If each present member would 
set one or several new members for the society we could do it. 
Therefore, let everyone of us get busy! Our feathered friends and 
other forms of wildlife need our help so badlv. 
Until the time comes when we can employ a full-time field man. 
let us make use of every opportunity that offers to spread the gospel 
of kindliness to all wild things. birds. mammals. wild flowers and 
others. In other words, let us do what we can to make our people, 
old and young, conservation-minded. Do it by the written or spoken 
word, in season and out of season, before meetings and individuals, 
wherever there is a chance to get the message in. The local press 
is one of the means to do this. Let us be up and doing! 
C. W. G. EIFRIic. 
