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" Voit cannot with a scalpel find the poet' s soul, Aor yet the wild bird's song." Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (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.!.!...'!!... .AiGiST Reese, 2516 North Fourteenth street, St. Louis. QYdo. ! Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave., Cincinnati. Indiana .!...........!...!.. ^ ■ ^^ • Woolen, Indianapolis. Illinois.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.! miss Marv Drummond, 20S West street, Wheaton. Iowa.... ..!.......!.....! Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. Wisconsin.!!!..!.!!! ...!...! ...!.! Mrs. Rriben G. Thwaits, 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. hind the state societies must be most de- Concerning the Conference ,., , ^ , ■ . . j ■ 1 »u liberately forged and tested, simply the The Audubon Conferences up to date annual conference of bodies of the import- may be compared to peach trees, which, ance to which the Audubon Societies have though thev may be of vigorous constitution grown cannot be scrambled over in a couple and full of promise, do not give fruit for of hours, with the warning "lack of time" several years after their planting. staring would-be questioners in the face. The second conference, held on the morn- Two sessions, with the time systematically ing of the 14th of November, was well at- allotted, might produce the desired results,— tended, and the luncheon which followed the single session was merely an aggravation, gave the delegates an opportunity for an Dr. Palmer alluded to the educational side hour of charming social intercourse with the of bird protection, and could an experience leading lights of ornithology, but the main meeting on these lines have followed, it end of the meeting, the discussion of meth- would have been both interesting and in- ods and the interchange of experiences, was structive. As it was, not so much was not attained, the single session having been learned of the workings of any one society absorlied in discussing the technicalities of as can be found any month in the columns the organization of a National or Advisory of Bird- Lore. Committee of the Audubon Societies. In this connection the editor wouiil like to Not that there was needless discussion emphasize the fact that, with proper coopcr- upon this subject, for every link tending to ation, the Audubon Department of this

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