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District of Columbia. — Our chief cause for encouragement the past year 

 has been the work among the children. In the schools they made over 1,000 

 nesting-boxes, and our Society gave 35 copies of Reed's "Bird Book" to the 

 makers of the best ones. More children attended our spring bird-study classes 

 than ever before. These classes have been in charge of Mrs. Florence Merriam 

 Bailey, with such fine instructors as Dr. T. S. Palmer, Prof. Oberholser, Dr. Bell, 

 Miss M. T. Cook, Mr. Leo D. Miner, and others connected with the Biological 

 Survey, as well as other members of the Society. These classes were followed 

 by our usual six outings with a total attendance of 117 persons, who reported 

 133 varieties of birds. 



At our annual meeting Dr. Paul Bartsch gave us a beautifully illustrated 

 lecture on "Some of the Birds of the District and of the Florida Keys." January 

 28, hundreds of children listened with rapt attention to Charles Hutchins, of 

 California. His lecture was repeated the next day at two other schools, one of 

 which was for colored children. On March 20 we had a splendid audience to 

 hear with pleasure and appreciation, as we always do, William L. Finley. We 

 have cooperated with the National Association in some of its Federal legisla- 

 tion. — Helen P. Childs, Secretary. 



East Tennessee. — We had twenty-three accessions to our Society this year, 

 due to our talking before literary societies and at our booth at the East Tennes- 

 see Division Fair. Mrs. Walter Barton devotes most of her time to securing reser- 

 vation for birds. In the last two years she has secured 21,415 acres. Of these 

 7,950 are posted and we have requests quite often for posters. Dr. McDonald 

 and Mrs. Barton attended the Farmers' Convention held at the University Farm 

 where they aroused much interest among the farmers. We never fail to cast 

 our influence on 'the side for bird-protection, and we send out such literature 

 as we have on hand in answer to many requests. — (Miss) Magnolia Wood- 

 ward, Secretary. 



Maryland. — After several years of inactivity, due to the demands of war 

 work, two of the local Audubon Societies united on January 27, 1920, to form 

 the Maryland Audubon Society, with Mrs. Baker Hull as President; Jesse L. 

 Slingluff, Vice-President; Miss Margaretta Poe, Secretary; Miss Mina D. 

 Starr, Assistant Secretary; Percy T. Blogg, Treasurer, and Mrs. Edward H. 

 Bouton and Talbott Denmead, Chief Deputy of Conservation Commission, 

 on the Executive Committee. In consultation with and aided in every way by 

 T. Gilbert Pearson, executive head of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, the organization was planned on as broad an educational basis as 

 possible. To this end the Board of Governors included Dr. Jos. S. Ames, 

 Johns Hopkins University; F. W. Besley, State Forester; J. Cookman Boyd, 

 President of the Park Board; Robert Garrett, financier, Mrs. J. H. Latane, 

 of Girl Scouts; Dr. Francis C. Nicholas, Curator, Maryland Academy of 



