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Sciences; Ernest Race, head of department of nature-study at State Normal 

 School; John Henry Skeen, of Boy Scouts; Miss Mary B. Stuart, Secretary 

 of the Children's Playground Association; and Dr. Henry West, Superintendent 

 of Public Schools of Baltimore. 



The Conservation Commission of Maryland has offered for our use all its 

 game sanctuaries, including the 400-acre water-shed at Loch Raven, which we 

 will supply with nesting-boxes during the coming season. Our campaign for 

 membership met with great response, and before we parted for the summer we 

 had held three well-attended meetings at the Maryland Academy of Sciences, 

 whose splendid quarters are placed at our disposal. Three sanctuaries were 

 started in different suburbs and plans laid for intensive work with the Boy 

 Scouts, the Children's Playground Association, and the manual training classes 

 in public schools this autumn. A course of lectures by C. S. Braubaugh will be 

 part of our winter's work. — (Mrs.) Louise Hull, President. 



Massachusetts. — More than two thousand people visited our Bird 

 Sanctuary at Sharon between January 1 and September 1 this year, most of 

 them going away thoroughly imbued with the idea of planning for bird sanc- 

 tuaries in their communities. As a concrete instance of the value of the ideas 

 thus secured, may be cited the Brockton Audubon Society's beautiful 23-acre 

 sanctuary just established in that city by a Society scarcely a year old. The 

 Society itself is a direct result of the missionary work of the state organization. 

 Also, the proposed Plum Island Reservation, when completed, will provide 

 for shore- and marsh-birds. Its beach-line is about 5 miles in extent and the 

 sand-dune territory is a y 2 mile by 2]/ 2 miles in area. The Society's Annual 

 Bird Day Outdoor Meet was held at the Sharon Sanctuary, many hundreds 

 participating in the all-day outing. 



The year has been all too short for the varied activities of the Society's 

 staff. The publication and distribution of bird-charts, calendars, leaflets, 

 bird-books, and literature of all description has been carried on with increased 

 effect. Our traveling libraries of bird-books have been revised, rebound, and 

 improved, and are going steadily to small towns where bird-books are not 

 otherwise easily available. Our illustrated traveling lectures — three in number 

 with 200 supplementry slides — have been in constant use in schools, clubs, 

 granges, and the like. Traveling exhibits of bird-protection material have had 

 wide circulation. The popularity of our annual lectures has necessitated the 

 use of Symphony Hall — largest in the city — where thousands this year enjoyed 

 the matter presented by some of the foremost bird-lecturers of the country. 



Soon we will place in distribution a two-reel film of Longfellow's beautiful 

 touching poem, "The Birds of Olingworth." This film, with its half hour 

 of bird-pictures and its beautiful story, will be available at small rental for 

 state and other Audubon Societies, bird clubs, and schools throughout the 

 country. During the year we have added to our rolls 54 life and 051 sustaining 



