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written, an order had been placed for 300,000 

 sets of bird-study supplies for children. 



During the year the central office of the 

 Association has had the most hearty support 

 of many of the affiliated societies and clubs 

 throughout the countr\-; especially has this 

 been true with the State Audubon Societies of 

 Massachusetts, New Jerse}-, and Oregon. The 

 Long Island Bird Club contributed so gener- 

 ously that it was possible to keep Mrs. Mar>' S. 

 Sage in the field lecturing on Long Island 

 throughout the year. She visited over one 

 hundred communities and gave 206 talks and 

 bird lectures, 57 of which were illustrated 

 with stcreopticon slides. In this manner she 

 addressed 20,000 school-children, besides 

 many adult gatherings. 



Since the Junior work was begun, eleven 

 years ago, these children's clubs, to the num- 

 ber of 66,709, have been formed and the total 

 paid members number 1,676,743. 



The following statement shows the distri- 

 bution of the Junior Clubs organized the past 

 school year: 



Annual Summary of Junior Audubon 

 Classes and Members Under the Chil- 

 dren's Educational Fund 



• Summary Ending June 1, 1921 



States Classes Members 



Alabama 12 559 



Arizona 4 219 



Arkansas 18 738 



California 142 5,862 



Colorado 51 2,301 



Connecticut 184 6,977 



Delaware 38 1,552 



District of Columbia 2 50 



States Classes 



Florida 176 



Georgia 18 



Idaho 10 



Illinois 320 



Indiana 181 



Iowa 123 



Kansas 44 



Kentucky 25 



Louisiana 7 



Maine 42 



Maryland 58 



Massachusetts 497 



Michigan 146 



Minnesota 202 



Mississippi 5 



Missouri no 



Montana 27 



Nebraska 79 



Nevada 8 



New Hampshire 40 



New Jersey 243 



New Mexico 4 



New York 843 



North Carolina 11 



North Dakota 37 



Ohio 616 



Oklahoma 9 



Oregon 32 



Pennsylvania 607 



Rhode Island 12 



South Carolina 16 



South Dakota 36 



Tennessee 9 



Texas 42 



Utah 26 



Vermont 25 



Virginia 41 



Washington 114 



West Virginia 33 



Wisconsin 159 



Wyoming 8 



Canada 35^ 



British Guiana i 



Japan o 



Totals 5,851 



Members 



5,963 



856 



412 



13,457 

 6,700 

 4,106 



1,543 



1,023 



219 



1,471 

 2,482 

 18,231 

 5,840 

 8,183 

 164 

 4,081 



I, IIS 



2,897 



313 



1,404 



10,689 



182 

 33,664 



339 



1,288 



22,562 



377 



3,635 



25,086 



652 



508 

 1,184 



518 

 1,697 



992 

 1,052 

 1,838 

 5,392 

 1,384 

 6,139 



274 



11,571 

 26 



229,787 



JUNIOR SOCIETIES AND THE PRESS 



An ever-increasing number of comments 

 commendatory to the Junior Audubon work 

 are appearing in the daily newspapers. It 

 would seem there is hardly any important 

 community in the country where the local 

 papers have not had something to say about 

 Audubon Societies formed among the chil- 

 dren. Three clippings picked up at random 

 from among the hundreds that have ap- 

 peared, run as follows: 



Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal. 



"Wild bird life will be promoted in Shore- 

 wood by the Audubon Society, organized 

 among the village children. Although formed 

 only two months ago, the society numbers 

 between 80 and 90 children. The older boys 

 plan to circulate petitions asking Wisconsin 

 congressmen to defeat the water power act 

 and Fall River basin bill, which, it is claimed, 

 are destructive to wild life. The children are 

 providing drinking-pools and bird-shelters, 

 and are studying the problem of control of 



