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...suggestions. They said they had always upheld all of his resolutions except the McNary-Haugen bill. They were against this bill because they felt that the Biological Survey which now sets bag limits was i.e better position than Congress to know what was best for U. S. birds. The Biological Survey has a staff of scientists who do nothing but study bird conditions...
Almost every school child knows the Audubon Societies, has given 10? to become a junior member and receive a button with a bird on it. The Audubon State Societies, founded in 1886 by Forest & Stream (monthly magazine), were united into a national organization 29 years ago by the late William Butcher, first president. Under his guidance until 1910, the societies became the strongest, most respected conservation power in the U. S. Therefore when accusations and complaints were heard last week coming from members of the old bird-loving society itself, observers were surprised. The dissenters demanded that the organization have...
...they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies. They assert that President Pearson has in the name of Audubon* opposed a bill in Congress to form permanent bird refuges, favored instead the establishment of interchangeable refuges, which would some years be public shooting grounds. Most biting criticism came in regard to Dr. Pearson's Bulletin No. 6 which was circulated among members requesting them to oppose the 15-bird Federal limit on wild ducks which went into force...
Short, stout President Pearson has been in trouble with society members before. In 1910, shortly after he assumed virtual leadership, he accepted for the societies a $25,000 gift from Winchester Arms Co. Horrified bird lovers made him give it back. Since then subdued criticisms have been heard from time to time, occasional horrified ejaculations that a man with a gunner's heart had crept into the Society, was perverting its policies. Last year a pamphlet signed by the late W. DeWitt Miller, vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society, berated large bird societies for neglecting their duties...
...Barrel-chested John James Fougere Audubon (1785-1851), for whom the National Audubon Societies were named, spent the prime of his life in difficult travel throughout the land shooting, skinning, studying, sketching, reporting North American birds. In 1827 he published his great ornithological work Birds of America containing 500 of his famed bird drawings...