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Messrs. P. B. Philipp and B. S. Bowdish visited and reported on the Orange 

 Lake, Florida, rookery. 



Mr. William P. Wharton and Dr. George W. Field, of Massachusetts, 

 represented the Association at the National Conservation Congress, held at 

 Kansas City, Missouri, in September last. Many others have also served 

 the Association with equally good will. 



STATE SOCIETIES 



The State Society occupies an indispensable place in the plan of Audubon 

 work in America. Your Board would urge the members of the National Asso- 

 ciation and the public generally to gi\-e them every aid and encouragement. 

 A number of these have accomplished remarkable results during the year. 



The reorganized New Jersey Society, with the Secretary, Mr. B. 

 S. Bowdish, as the active officer, has built up a live membership, collected 

 nearly one thousand dollars in fees, and is largely responsible for the enact- 

 ment of the plumage law in that state. 



The Audubon Society of Kentucky, under the leadership of Mr. James H. 

 Gardner, was organized January 28, igii. One of its several accomplishments 

 has been the organization of over twelve hundred school children into Junior 

 Audubon Classes, every one of whom paid a fee of ten cents and wore an 

 Audubon button. 



On February 11, 191 1, the West Tennessee Audubon Society was organ- 

 ized in Memphis, with Dr. R. B. ISIaury as President. This, as well as the 

 East Tennessee Audubon Society, headed by Mr. H. Tullsen, has done most 

 creditable work in the matter of organizing Junior Audubon Societies, work- 

 ing for the establishment of private bird reserves and laboring for legisla- 

 ation, with special reference to protecting the Robin. 



Probably in no state have the officers engaged in a more painstaking, 

 laborious effort for the cause than have Mrs. W. E. Harris, President, and 

 Mrs. A. S. Buford, Jr., Secretary of the Audubon Society of Virginia. Their 

 work in co-operation with Miss Katharine Stuart, the Association's Field 

 Agent, has made it possible for thousands of children in the state to receive 

 systematic instruction in bird study. 



Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois, Oregon and Cali- 

 fornia have also been engaged in their usual hea^•y volume of activity. 



Lack of time forbids further discussion here of the work of the State Socie- 

 ties, full reports of which will be found in the following pages. 



These brief references to State Audubon Societies, however, should not 

 be closed without mentioning the fact that on October 10, 191 1, the Audubon 

 Society of West Virginia was formed at Parkersburg. We welcome this new 

 Society, the organization of which completes the list of State Audubon Socie- 

 ties east of the Mississippi river. 



