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 The Audubon Societies

Edited by (President of the Audubon Society of the State of  Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this department should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication.

DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES

With names and addresses of their Secretaries

New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. Rhode Island... Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street. Providence. Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. New Jersey Miss Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford ave., Plainfield, N.J. Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore Place, Wilmington. Maryland... Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. District of Columbia. Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. Virginia Mrs. Frederick E. Tow.n, Glencarlyn. South Carolina. Miss S. A. S.mvth, Legare street, Charleston. Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. Missouri Augus Reese, 2516 North Fourteenth street, St. Louis. Ohio. Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave., Cincinnati. Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. Illinois. Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. Wisconsin Mrs. Ruben G. Thwaite, 260 Langdon street, Milwaukee. Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. Wyoming. Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne. Kentucky. Ingram Crockett, Henderson. Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. California. Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands.

Concerning the Conference

The Audubon Conferences up to date annual may be compared to peach trees, which, though they may be of vigorous constitution and full of promise, do not give fruit for several years after their planting.

The second conference, held on the morning of the 14th of November, was well attended, and the luncheon which followed gave the delegates an opportunity for an hour of charming social intercourse with the leading lights of ornithology, but the main end of the meeting, the discussion of methods and the interchange of experiences, was not attained, the single session having been absorbed in discussing the technicalities of the organization of a National or Advisory Committee of the Audubon Societies.

Not that there was needless discussion upon this subject, for every link tending to bind the state societies must be most deliberately forged and tested, simply the annual conference of bodies of the importance to which the Audubon Societies have grown cannot be scrambled over in a couple of hours, with the warning "lack of time" staring would-be questioners in the face.

Two sessions, with the time systematically allotted, might produce the desired results,— the single session was merely an aggravation,

Dr. Palmer alluded to the educational side of bird protection, and could an experience meeting on these lines have followed, it would have been both interesting and instructive. As it was, not so much was learned of the workings of any one society as can be found any month in the columns of Bird-Lore.

In this connection the editor would like to emphasize the fact that, with proper cooperation, the Audubon Department of this