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wide interest in the food habits of the birds. In the spring, she lectured on 

 migration. At the end of the year, she offered an examination on the work, 

 and also a competitive prize for the best essay on a bird subject. The results 

 were unusually gratifying. 



The interest in bird-study reacts most helpfully on all the other work of 

 the school. Teachers are as enthusiastic as students to have the bird talks- 

 given each year. 



The special advantage of this work is that it helps each student, by giving 

 them a method of study, a good knowledge of the common birds about our 

 homes and parks, and also the deep interest to know and protect the birds. 

 We are looking for more such devoted bird teachers, to go to different parts 

 of our state. 



Another valued director of our Society, Mrs. Walters, has the privilege 

 of being editor of the School Department of Bird-Lore. The wealth of sug- 

 gestions and material she gives must be a real aid to teachers. 



Another director reports thirty field trips for bird-study with his classes. 

 More and more, our traveling library work is coordinated with the work of 

 the public schools. During the past year, one hundred and ninety volumes 

 have been received by gift or purchase, bringing our total library up to four 

 hundred and fifty volumes. One generous donor sent us the complete Double- 

 day Nature Library, and another gave a collection of twenty-five books for 

 a special memorial library. 



The Audubon Society is in close touch with the Park Museum. Mr. 

 Madison, the Curator, gives lectures on bird protection at the Museum and 

 in the schools, and suppKes loan material for bird- and nature-study to the 

 teachers. 



The directors have held their regular bi-monthly meetings, and one social 

 meeting with luncheon for the benefit of out-of-town Secretaries. 



A new economic bird lecture on Bob-white and other game birds, with 

 sixty-four colored lantern slides for illustration, is completed and ready for 

 circulation among the rural schools and granges. — Alice W. Wilcox, 

 Secretary. 



South Carolina. — The Audubon Society of South Carolina has had all 

 it could do to hold its own and to prevent serious loss of ground. No increase 

 in membership can be recorded, but the year shows net loss, many members 

 having failed to renew their membership, but it is quite reasonable to suppose 

 that most of these will renew hereafter. 



The present status is that the Chief Game Warden of the state is serving 

 as Secretary of the Audubon Society, without pay (and is doing it gladly), 

 but one person cannot properly attend to both positions. The Society badly 

 needs a live secretary who will push the work. 



Just a little explanation may clear up matters. The General Assembly, 



