Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 363 



interesting story of the bird life of the west coast of South America and its 

 enormous value in the production of commercial fertilizer. Mr. Murphy made 

 a very fine impression on a very critical audience. The third and last lecture 

 was given by an old friend of the Society, Norman McClintock. He had the 

 largest attendance, which does not prove that the lecture was better than those 

 preceding it, but that the interest in the course increased after each lecture. 



Following the lectures, a campaign for new members was inaugurated, which 

 resulted in an increase of over 40 per cent in membership and a list of over 

 1,000 live prospects from which it is hoped to secure a large number of active 

 and contributing members. There is a constantly increasing demand for 

 buttons and leaflets from public schools and an apparently widespread and 

 growing popularity for bird-study throughout the state of lUinois. The 

 Audubon Society has been invited to join the Wild Flower Preservation Society 

 and the Microscopic Society in a joint exhibit to be given in the Art Institute 

 of Chicago, December 17-January 15. Last year's exhibit of the Wild Flower 

 Society was attended by over 100,000 people. The joint exhibit will have 

 three rooms adjoining and there is no question as to the tremendous boost 

 that will result from this exhibit to the Audubon Society from this very popular 

 holiday attraction. — Orpheud M. Schantz, President. 



Maryland. — During the season of 1920-21, the Society gave thirteen lectures 

 on ornithology, illustrated by colored lantern-slides, mounted birds, and bird- 

 nests. There was arranged, also, at the Maryland Academy of Sciences, where 

 our evening meetings are held, a case of mounted birds, showing the birds to 

 be seen in Maryland during the current month. This case is changed each 

 week during the spring migration. These two features, together with the field 

 trips, of which we had seven, were of great value to students, teaching them to 

 identify birds on the wing, and a chart record of birds seen by our members is 

 kept at the Maryland Academy of Sciences. One of our members has organized 

 150 children as Junior Audubon Members. 



The Society gave sixteen prizes in a nesting-box building competition which 

 it inaugurated in the manual training classes of the public schools and hung 

 275 of these boxes in the Loch Raven watershed which the State Conservation 

 Commission maintains as a bird sanctuary and breeding-grounds. The Presi- 

 dent gave five talks to women's clubs on bird conservation, with the result that 

 three neighborhood sanctuaries have been established and several others are 

 being organized. The membership of the Society increases from week to week, 

 which, with the requests to us for lectures about birds, from organizations of 

 various characters, shows that interest in the subject of conservation of bird- 

 life is thoroughly aroused. — (Mrs.) Louise Hull, President. 



Massachusetts. — Our State Audubon Society reports a prosperous and, we 

 believe, an effective year. Five hundred and eighteen new Sustaining Members 



