Origin of the Audubon Society in Texas

Authors

Stanley D. Casto, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Publication Date

1-1-1985

Abstract

The Audubon movement was first established in Texas during 1886 when 104 persons were enrolled by mail as members of the society founded by George Bird Grinnell in New York City. This original Audubon Society was discontinued in January 1889 and there was no further Audubon activity in Texas until a society was organized at Galveston on March 4, 1899. The activities of this society were terminated by the hurricane that destroyed Galveston on September 8, 1900. A second Audubon Society was organized at La Porte, Texas, in April 1903. In late 1904, Mervyn Bathurst Davis was appointed Secretary of the Texas Audubon Societies with the responsibility of organizing local societies. By January 1905 there was a total of fourteen local societies in Texas with a combined membership of around eight hundred.

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Casto, Stanley D. (1985) "Origin of the Audubon Society in Texas," Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society: Vol. 18: Iss. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tos_bulletin/vol18/iss1/3