Evening star., 1937-01-28
AUDUBON SOCIETY.
| MARKS 4OTH YEAR
Mord.Pictured Reports Are
, Given of Bird Activities
, in the Nation.

The Audubon Society Of the District
Of Columbia celebrated the tortieth
year Of its existence last night at the
annual meeting in the auditorium OF
the Washington Club, 170l K street.
With the meeting presided over by
Or. T. s. Parker, president; Miss Helen
p. Childs, secretary, read an interest
ing paper sketching the high lights
Of the society's active career in WASH
ington.
Word-pictured reports OF various
bird activities throughout the Nation,
made by members who had visited
various States in the past Summer,
featured the evenings entertainment.
DR.. Harold G. Bryant, active vice
president, told Of his encounters with
the trumpeter swans on Yellowstone
Lake, where he saw Is nesting fowl,
causing him to believe that an almost
extinct species might be saved to the
United States. He also recounted his
experiences at Mount Whitney, where
the habits of rosy finches were studied.
Also survey Of water fowl in Florida
during the current month.
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DR.. Bryant stated as his belief that
the coming conservation congress, to
be held In st. Louis In March, would
mark the first great endeavor of all
conservationists ito pull together. and
stand shoulder to shoulder" in an at
tempt to preserve the wild life of the
Nation. He predicted a reorganization
within the ranks of governmental
agencies to the same end, and cited
. plan where all conservation groups
might be welded together.
In an impromptu talk, following the
report Of the secretary, President
Palmer told Of the early beginnings Of
the Audubon Society and its efforts
toward the bird legislation which pre-
vented women from wearing various
plumage on their hats. He told how
washington, took on national propor-
tions and finally emerged as an inter-
national project protecting birds Of all
nations.
Dr.. Palmer cited the fact that the
Audubon Society was actually founded
In the Spring Of the year 1897, but
that the meeting last night was being
appropriately held on the death an
niversary Of John Audubon, who died
e6 years ago, in New York City.
Pleas Made for Ducks.
DR.. H. G. Oberholser made q plea on
behalf Of the ducks: "They have had
. hard time" he said, "at home and
abroad. What with several million
hunters after them, and the difIiculty
the ducks have Of rearing their young,
life among the ducks is very precari-
Gus. It Is remarkable there are any
ducks left. Added to all other hazards,
for the past seven or eight years, there
has been an unprecedented drought
In the best breeding places" He said
the redheads and the canvas backs
have taken "a most severe drop in
population, due to the terrible drought.
In many cases there are no ducks
being reared. There is danger of ex-
termination" he concluded.
Miss Ruth Boyer, treasurer, read
her financial report, showing that the
society Is in healthy condition, with
156 active, seven life and seven s,is-
tanning members. Death claimed two
members during the past year.
The following members, elected to
the Executive Committee. viii meet
next Monday to elect officers Of the
Audubon Society:
William Howard Ball, Dr.. Harold
c. Bryant, Mrs. r. Bruce Horsfall,
Mrs. Leo D. Miner, Mrs. Harry c.
Oberholser, Mrs. I. c. Gardner, Mrs.
Robert M. Reese, DR.. George B. Roth,
Miss Esther w. Scott, G. r. Shoe
maker, Mrs. Chester Snow, Miss Emma
Strider, Miss Mary d. Suter, Joseph
6. Wade and Mrs. John Van Schaick.
Honorary vice presidents nominated
and unanimously elected are:
Mrs. Vernon Bailey, DR.. Frank W.
Bal1ou, DR.. Paul Bartsch, Mrs. Charles
j. Bell, Frank Bond, DR.. George F.
Bowerman, Miss Mary r. Brickenstein,
Ira N. Gabrielson, Miss Ella Given,
Raymond Gorges, DR.. Gilbert H.
Grosvenor, DR.. L. O. Howard, Ernest
Knaebel. DR.. William Mann, L. Nc
Cormick-G Goodhart, Mrs. M. J. Mclean,
DR.. G. Hart Merriam, Theodore w.
Noyes, DR.. II. C. Oberholser, Mrs.
George Shiras, Sd; Rev. John Van
Schaick, jr., D. D.: Prof. r. v. Truitt
and DR.. Alexander Wetmore.