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...unusually restless, talkative throng of members in the National Association of Audubon Societies filed into a large room at the American Museum of Natural History last week for their 26th annual meeting. Instead of telling each other about the last oriole they had seen or how their new wren-houses were working out, they whispered over the backs of their chairs like politicians. They all knew that the policies of their president, Thomas Gilbert Pearson, were to be challenged by a small group of discontented members who had charged him with too great a friendship for wealthy sportsmen, too little...
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...
...intrepid insurgents call themselves the Emergency Conservation Committee. Members are Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite; Irving Brant of the St. Louis Star; Henry Carey, Philadelphia lawyer; Davis Quinn, Manhattan nature-lore writer. They prepared to make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, 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...
...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. These charges, to which President Pearson turned an indifferent ear, are the direct cause of the present...
...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...