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imaginations. There were also talks and lectures to Mothers' Clubs and other 

 Women's Organizations, to Business Men's Clubs, etc., and there seems 

 to be no lack of enthusiasm or effort on the part of the devotees who convene 

 once a month in the library of the Cuvier Club. 



When the General Federation of Women's Clubs met in Cincinnati, last 

 spring, the Society, through a committee, sent in an appeal to pass a resc/iution 

 that these women shall giv^e to Bird Preservation and Bird Study their most 

 earnest consideration; and we are happy to record that the resolution was 

 unanimously adopted. We hope that at the next Conference the Audubon 

 Society will arrange to have some capable and interesting lecturer bring the 

 matter more closely to their attention. When the demand for bird plumage 

 shall cease, the supply will cease, and the birds be allowed to live in perfect 

 peace. 



The field meetings grow more popular every year, and ''The Ramblers"^ 

 (an outgrowth of the Audubon Society and graduates of the University of 

 Cincinnati), are open-eyed with wonder at the richness and variety of natural 

 history that the hills of Ohio and Kentucky afford. 



As a result of legislation, an effort was made to protect the Heron, by 

 itemizing such birds as are classified under the term 'game-birds' in the law. 

 The contention in the courts of Ohio has been based on the possibility 

 of the Heron's being considered a 'water-fowl.' Not being among those 

 named, it can no longer be placed in the same category with game-birds, and 

 we hope this will effectually protect that bird in the future. 



With the Chancellor of Germany, we believe "that the protection of ani- 

 mals from cruelty is to be regarded not only as the outcome of a love of nature, 

 but as a matter of moral education; and, with this end in view, the work of 

 our Society, ever changing but never ending, is one that must always play 

 an important part in the education and uplift of every community. — Kather- 

 IXE Rattermann, Secretary. 



Oklahoma. — The work of the Oklahoma Audubon Society for the past 

 year has been mostly along educational lines. Bird literature has been intro- 

 duced into public schools, and the result is that more birds are known, loved, 

 respected and protected than ever before. Annual bird days have been cele- 

 brated in many schools, and leading educators throughout the state heartily 

 endorse the work of the Audubon Society. 



The state game law has been revised, and every person desiring to hunt 

 game must pay a state license, and also obtain a permit from the owner of 

 the land on which he desires to hunt. 



Many farmers, realizing that the Quail, the Meadowlark, the Dove, and 

 many other birds, are of inestimable value to their crops, positively refuse 

 to permit any hunting on their premises. 



The Audubon Society has been endorsed and commended by the State 



