ELLERY W. DAVIS, UNIVERSITY
PRESIDENT
J. H. POWERS, CRETE
VICE PRESIDENT
R. H. WOLCOTT, UNIVERSITY
SECRETARY
G. A. LOVELAND,
U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
TREASURER

BOARD OF  DIRECTORS
L. BRUNER, UNIVERSITY WM. CLEBURNE, OMAHA C. H. GORDON, LINCOLN H. B. LOWRY, LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY AND TREASURER EX- OFFICIO

THE NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
FOUNDED 1891

My dear Shoemaker:--
I give herewith a constitution for the suggested Audubon
Auxiliary which I trust you will look over carefully and revise as seems
to you wise.  It represents essentially what both Crawford and I have
thought proper but has not been worked over sufficiently but that the
additions and changes may readily occur to you.  It is as follows:

          I. The name of this body shall be The Audubon Auxiliary of the
Nebraska Ornithologists' Union.

          II. Its object shall be to take charge of bird protection work in
the state of Mebraska.

          III. Membership shall be open to all who pay the necessary fee
and sign the proscribed pledgs; but membership shall be open to no all mem-
bers of the Union without the payment of a new any fee in addition to the
regular dues of the Union.

          IV. The control of the organization shall be in the hands of a
committee of five which shall be known as the Executive Committee of
the Audubon Auxiliary, which shall be a standing committee of the Union,
and the members of which shall be active members of the Union.

          V. This committee shall have full phwer to elect its own chairman,
to appoint such sub-committees as it may deem desirable, to make provision
for the establishment of local chapters, to determine the fiorm of the
pledge exacted of members, to fix all dues and assessments, to expend
all money collected from members of the Auxiliary, to make provision
for its own meetings and in such general meetings which as it may see fit to
call, and to establish such other regulations as are necessary in the

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administration of the business of the Auxiliary.

     VI. This committee may make such arrangements as it shall deem
proper in regard to affiliation with the national organization of
Audubon Societies,such action to be subject to sanction by the Union.

     VII. No member of the Audubon Auxiliary shall be considered a mem-
ber of the Union by virtue of his membership in the Auxiliary nor/shall
any money collected for the use of the Auxiliary be used for any pur-
pose by the Union.

     VIII. The Union reserves the right to veto any action of the com-
mittee which shall be deemded imnimical to its interests.

          You see, Shoemaker, the object is to allow the governing body
af the Audubon Auxiliary the widest possible latitude while still re-
taining in the hands of the Union the ultimate control of all ornitho-
logical interestws within the state.  This committee it is expected will
draft a set of by-laws to govern the Auxiliary as a whole, to make pro-
vision for local chapters,and to suggest a form for the government of
such chapters.  These chapters may well be representative of individual
schools or sahool rooms or associations of any persons whatsoever and
they may be allowed to govern themselves subject, of course, to the
authority of the executive committee of the Auxiliary.  I wish,if it
were possible,that you might get a number of the Omaha members of the
Union together and bring the matter before them,letting us know at as
early a date as possible what they think of the whole matteer and what
suggestions they may have had to offer.

     A Miss Joy Higgins of 544 So. 30 St.,Omaha has written a letter to

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                                                       has
me in which she says that she ^ begun the organization of an Audubon

Society in Omaha,especially in the schools, and has written to Mr. Dutcher,

chairman of the national committee of Audubon Societies, whose letter

she enclosed.  In this letter Mr. Dutcher advises her not to organize

an independent society but to communicate with us and work under our

direction.  I shall give Miss Higgins Yyour address and it may be

desirable that you drop her a note telling her when and where she may

have the opportunity of seeing you and talking the matter over with you.

I trust you will take the matter up as soon as possible,with the press

of work under which I hKnow you are laboring,and let me know the results.

With most cordial good wishes for yourself and to Mr. and Miss

Van Sant I remain

Very truly yours,
Robt. H. Wolcott

Mr. Frank Shoemaker,

        Omaha, Nebr.