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ing report for the Committee, which is 

 endeavoring to increase the endowment, 

 known as the "Mary Dutcher Memorial 

 Fund," to the sum of $10,000. 

 Total amount collected, June 3, 



to December 31, 1910 $8,132 37 



Amount invested in 



Bond and Mortgage $7,100 00 

 General expenses in 



collecting fund 431 05 



Cash in Columbia 



Trust Co 601 32 



$8,132 37 



The Board held a prolonged session at 

 which many features of the Audubon work 

 were discussed. — T. G. Pearson, Secretary. 



Work Under the Sage Fund 



The contributions of Mrs. Russell Sage 

 to this Association, for its work in the 

 southern states, which during the past 

 year has amounted to $5,500, has made 

 it possible to employ four field agents, 

 and conduct a large amount of other work 

 in the southern states of late. 



Miss Katharine H. Stuart, of Virginia, 

 has been constantly engaged in lecturing 

 and writing on bird protection and the 

 work of the Audubon Society. She atten- 

 ded the meeting of the State Teachers' 

 Association in Richmond, and, in her ad- 

 dress, explained to the teachers the sub- 

 ject of organizing Junior Audubon Classes 

 under the Mrs. Sage plan. Miss Stuart is 

 now conducting a heavy correspondence 

 among school teachers, and is distributing 

 large numbers of educational leaflets. 



Milford W. Haynes, in North Carolina, 

 made a systematic canvass of the senators 

 and representatives of the state, to inter- 

 est them in supporting the Audubon bills 

 which will be introduced in the legislature, 

 to protect the Robin, to establish a game 

 commission, and to provide a resident 

 hunters' license tax, the money thus col- 

 lected to be used for bird and game pro- 

 tection. He has also published several 

 articles in the newspapers bearing on these 

 points. After the first of January he was 

 stationed in Raleigh, to watch closely the 

 legislative situation. 



James Henry Rice, Jr., in South Caro- 

 lina has been conducting a most remark- 

 able lecture course. Beginning August 15, 

 a whirlwind campaign was carried on and 

 meetings held daily, except Sunday. For 

 at least sixty days there was never less 

 than one meeting addressed, daily, and 

 sometimes as high as six. 



This included a campaign with farmers, 

 school-children, factory operatives (the 

 greatest slaughterers of birds in the state), 

 and townsfolk. The number of people 

 attending these meetings, according to 

 newspaper accounts, exceeded forty 

 thousand. 



Special stress was always laid on the 

 value of the birds, especially on such birds 

 as the Robin, hitherto subject to relentless 

 persecution. So far this winter, the robins 

 have not been greatly molested; and not 

 a single case has been prosecuted for kill- 

 ing Robins. Last year the Audubon Society 

 conducted many prosecutions and there 

 were numerous rumors of Robin slaughter 

 where proof could not be had. Mr. Rice 

 has secured the pledges of about ninety 

 per cent of the members of the legislature 

 to support the Audubon bill for a 

 resident hunters' license. 



Captain M. B. Davis has been conduct- 

 ing a most aggressive campaign in Texas. 

 He has attended numerous gatherings 

 where, in his addresses, he has presented 

 the importance of bird protection, and 

 urged the adoption of resolutions, and 

 the formation of classes and committees 

 who shall work to save the robin and other 

 valuable birds of the state. Among the 

 places where he has worked, some of the 

 more important were the annual meeting 

 of the State Teachers' Association held 

 in Abilene, beginning December 28, 1910, 

 meetings of the cotton growers, and 

 gatherings of the state corn clubs. He has 

 lectured before numbers of schools, and 

 interviewed hundreds of superintendents 

 and teachers. He estimates that his series 

 of articles on Robin protection published 

 in the Texas papers have been read by not 

 less than 500,000 people. Mrs. Davis has 

 greatly assisted him in his work. Among 

 other places where her efforts have done 



