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Our Society proposed an interstate conference with adjoining State Audubon 

 Societies regarding Audubon work. We contemplate bringing this forward 

 again later. — Jf.ffkrson Butler, Secretary. 



Minnesota, — The work of this Society has been largely of an educational 

 nature. The writer has contributed a series of six articles on bird and animal 

 life to the St. Paul papers, and these have been widely read in the state, and 

 some have been reprinted in papers elsewhere. 



Twelve illustrated lectures have been delivered on bird life and animals. 

 These have been given in St. Paul and MinneapoUs, and in several country 

 towns in Minnesota. These lectures reached directly an audience of about 

 4,000 people. 



Plans are now under way for having a series of lectures on bird life deli\-- 

 ered at the summer schools for teachers, which are held each summer in 

 about sixty counties of the state. 



The writer and others expect to present the Audubon work to the Boy 

 Scouts that are being organized in this and neighboring states. We have also 

 furnished plans for several bird-study clubs, and expect to do more of that 

 kind of work in the future. 



I believe that one of our great needs in Minnesota and se\-eral other states 

 in the Central West, and in several Canadian pro\dnces, is a reconnaissance 

 for breechng colonies and breeding areas of water-birds, waders and game-birds, 

 with a view to the establishment of bird reserves. If this is not done very soon, 

 the breeding-places of many valuable and interesting birds will be irretrievably 

 destroyed. The historic Heronry of Lake Minnetonka, I fear, will soon be 

 a thing of the past. For preserving this fine colony of Great Blue Herons and 

 Cormorants, we are allowing the right moment to pass. 



We had a well-arranged exhibit at the State Fair in September, which 

 attracted much attention. Our total membership is about two thousand. — 

 D. Lange, President. 



Nebraska. — During the past year, the Nebraska Audubon Society has 

 distributed literature, and placed effectively the 'Ladies" Home Journal" pic- 

 torial sermon on the aigrette. There is a continually increasing interest in 

 bird life in this state, a stimulated interest in the whole conservation movement. 



We still hope for more time and money to give our Society greater effec- 

 tiveness. — Joy M. Higgins, Secretary. 



New Jersey. — Late in the legislative season, an attempt was made to 

 secure an amendment to the non-game bird law of the same character as the 

 ■one passed in New York, extending the provisions of the law to birds of pro- 

 tected species killed without the state, also to those taken within the state. 

 The bill passed the Assembly before its enemies realized its character, but it 



