Section A.2 Correspondence of the Presidents and Other Officers of the NAS

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1901

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1930

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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically by state within year(s) from 1901 to 1930. Foreign correspondence is filed at the end of the states correspondence. Some correspondence is filed topically within the chronological arrangement. The correspondence is mainly that of presidents William Dutcher (To 1910) and his successor, T. Gilbert Pearson (from 1911) and other officers including Beecher S. Bowdish, Alan H, Hadley, with conservationists, naturalists, ornithologists, state and federal wildlife conservation officials, game wardens, field agents, lighthouse keepers, hunters, taxidermists, state Audubon societies, and wildlife conservation organizations in the US and abroad.</p> <p>The correspondence relates to the protection of herring gulls, terns, and other sea birds, the prevention of the commercial exploitation of plumage by the millinery industry., the location and protection of bird breeding grounds, the management of wildlife sanctuaries, the enforcement of state game laws, the promotion of federal legislation and international agreements regarding the protection of migratory birds, the Norbeck-Andresen Migratory Bird Refuge Bill, and the establishment of the Everglades National Park in Florida.</p> <p>Correspondents include William C. Adams, Joel A. Allen, Robert P. Allen, American Game Protective Association, Audubon Society of the State of New York, Carlos Avery James Buckland, William Brewster, John B. Burnham, Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Frank M. Chapman, Council on National Parks, Forests and Wildlife, Henry H. Curran, Arthur O. Eifler, Guy Emerson, William L. Finley, Edward H. Forbush, Richard Gordon, George B. Grinnell, John P. Holman, International Committee for Bird Protection, Izaak Walton League of America, Herbert K. Job, and Frederic A. Lucus.</p> <p>List of correspondence continue: Frank M. Miller, Millinery Merchants Protective Association, Robert Cushman Murphy, National Committee on Wild-Life Legislation, Edward W. Nelson, Winthrop Packard, Theodore S. Palmer, John C. Phillips, James Henry Rice, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Richard B. Sharpe, Witmer Stone, Eugene Swope, Abbott H. Thayer, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey, and William P. Warton.</p>"}

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1901

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1930

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1901

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1. 1901-1902 [4/1]
2. 1903 [3/1]
3. 1904 [2/1]
4. 1905 [2/1]
5. 1906 [3/1]
6. 1907 [9/1]
7. 1908 [6/1]
8. 1909 [6/1]
9. 1910 [11/1]
10. 1911 [8/1]
11. 1912 [16/1]
12. 1913 [9/1]
13. 1914 [5/1]
14. 1915 [6/1]
15. 1916 [7/1]
16. 1917 [5/1]
17. 1918 [2/1]
18. 1919 [1/1]
19. 1918-1919 [5/1]
20. 1919-1920 [8/1]
21. 1919-1921 [1/1]
22. 1920-1921 [8/1]
23. 1922-1923 [8/1]
24. 1922-1926 [2/1]
25. 1923-1924 [6/1]
26. 1924-1925 [11/1]
27. 1925-1926 [2/1]
28. 1926 [7/1]
29. 1927 [7/1]
30. 1928 [9/1]
31. 1928-1930 [5/1]
32. 1929 [10/1]
33. 1930 [9/1]