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On the whole, our plans for the coming year are along the same lines tried 

 and found satisfactory in the past several years, and we all look forward to 

 a year full of effort and accomplishment. — Katherine Rattermann, 

 Secretary. 



Oklahoma. — Many of the prominent workers in the Audubon Society 

 have been out of the state much of the time during the past year, consequently 

 less systematic work of the organization has been accomplished. However, 

 the sentiment in favor of birds and bird-protection has not waned, but has 

 grown much stronger. More schools are celebrating Audubon Day, and more 

 girls and boys are observing birds and arguing for their protection; also, more 

 farmers and agriculturists are forbidding, even in the open season, the killing 

 of those game birds, such as the Quail, the Meadowlark, the Dove, and others, 

 which prove so great a blessing in the way of destroying insects and weed- 

 seeds. This is, to a great extent, the result of the reading of literature and 

 letters sent out from the oflfice of the State Audubon Society, at Guthrie. — 

 Alma Carson, Secretary. 



Oregon. — We think we have some progress to report in our year's work, 

 and reason to suppose that the year to come will show even better results. 



The educational work has been confined to the distribution of leaflets and 

 lectures to teachers and schools. In the lectures, no small part has been taken 

 by the beautiful photographs generously loaned by Mr. H. T. Bohlman. Any 

 bird talk illustrated by such photographs goes far to win boys and others 

 from hunting with a gun, and starting them to hunting with a camera. 



The Corresponding Secretary has given many bird talks. Our President, 

 Mr. Finley, delivered thirty-six talks among the pubHc schools. These bore 

 fruit in the manual-training department of the public schools of Portland by 

 setting many children vigorously to work building bird-houses. Several hun- 

 dred were constructed. An exhibition of these was held in the Assembly Hall 

 of one of our largest department stores, and most of the houses were sold, 

 the money being returned to the builder, in each case. The exhibition called 

 forth much favorable comment. 



We have as a member of our Board of Directors the State Superintendent 

 of Public Schools, who is making bird-study a special feature in the work of 

 the schools. 



We are also fortunate in the Governor of our state. Governor West is a 

 man ardently anxious to serve our interests when it is in his power to do so. 



The Society was recently the recipient of a bequest from Mrs. Walter 

 Dyer, known as the "Byron Z. Holmes Bequest," of $2,500 preferred stock 

 in the International Telephone Company, bearing interest at 7 per cent. We 

 recognize this as a long step forward in the recognition of the Audubon Society. 



At the Legislature, this year, an important bill passed which provided for 



