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$7,994.29. In maintaining its work during the year, it has expended $4,966.30, 

 leaving a balance on hand of $3,027.99. 



The Society's activities during the past year have, as heretofore, included 

 lectures, newspaper publicity work, and attention to legislative matters. In 

 the field of school-work, a plan of cooperation with the work of the National 

 Association of Audubon Societies was again inaugurated, and although handi- 

 capped, as far as the Society was concerned, by a late start, 440 Junior 

 Audubon Classes were organized in the state of New Jersey, with a total mem- 

 bership of 15,492, the state thus ranking sixth among all the states in which 

 this work was carried on. 



The tenth annual meeting was held in the Newark Free Library on October 

 11, 1920 at 4 p.m. The meeting of the Board of Trustees immediately fol- 

 lowed. All the trustees and officers were reelected. 



At the public session at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of the Newark State 

 Normal School, Howard H. Cleaves, of the New York State Conservation 

 Commission, gave an address on "With a Camera among the Birds," illustrated 

 by stereopticon slides and motion pictures. Mr. Cleaves' popularity, which 

 was apparently indicated several years ago when he gave an address for the 

 Society, was abundantly confirmed by the large and enthusiastic audience that 

 greeted him on the present occasion. — Beecher S. Bowdish, Secretary. 



Ohio. — The past year has been the most successful in the history of the 

 Society. To measure the success of such an organization is difficult, for the crea- 

 tion of a sentiment is too subtle a thing to be weighed or measured. In a 

 material way, however, we can record an improved financial condition and a 

 great increase in membership. This is, perhaps, the most tangible and impor- 

 tant advance, for new and younger members must in future carry on the work. 



Two big events the past year much advertised our work. These were the tea 

 and reception in January, when a hundred guests enjoyed a social hour in the 

 tea-room of the Ohio Mechanics Institute and the lecture recital of Edward 

 Avis. The latter event was enjoyed by 1,500 people and netted the Society 

 over $160. Mr. Avis lectured before two other organizations and addressed 

 many schools in the city and suburbs. Lectures by the president, Prof. William 

 G. Cramer, by Prof. Charles Dury and Misses Hosea and Sweeney before the 

 Society and other organizations, helped to foster the spirit of bird-love through- 

 out this vicinity. 



In the legislative field the Society was not idle. Owing to a misunderstand- 

 ing of the migratorx bird law, Mourning Doves were being slaughtered in 

 Ohio. The President took prompt action and caused a clearer interpretation of 

 the law to be rendered. — (Miss) Katherine Ratterman, Secretary. 



Oregon.— The most important work of the year has been our effort to 

 save the Malheur Lake Bird Reservation which was established by President 



