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Second Vice-President, Prof. Donaldson 

 Bodine, Crawfordsville, Ind.; Secretary. 

 Miss Elizabeth Downhour, Indianapolis, 

 Ind.; Extension Secretary, Mrs. Etta 

 Wilson, Indianapolis, Ind.; Treasurer, 

 William Watson Woollen, Indianapolis, 

 Ind. 



E.xecutive Committee: Miss Florence 

 H. Howe, Indianapolis, Chairman; Mr. 

 Alden Hadley, Monrovia, Ind.; Miss 

 Elizabeth M. Garber, Madison, Ind.; 

 Mr. Edward Barrett, Indianapolis, Ind.; 

 Mr. Amos W. Butler, Indianapolis, 

 Associate member of National Audubon 

 Societies. 



The evening meeting was held in an 

 old church at Hanover. Talks were made 

 by Dr. Millis, President of Hanover, 

 Dr. Dennis, and Rev. R. F. Souter. 

 Music was furnished by a glee club. 



Resolutions of thanks to the people of 

 Madison and Hanover were read by 

 Mr. Barrett and seconded by Mr. Woollen. 

 The meeting then adjourned, to meet 

 at one of the lakes in Northern Indiana 

 next spring, where a good opportunity 

 will be afforded to study the water birds. 

 — Elizabeth Downhour, Secretary. 



Mr. Jefferson Butler's Field Work 



Many of the readers of Bird-Lore 

 probably do not have a clear idea as to 

 the character of the detail work in which 

 the field agents of this Association are 

 engaged. The following, taken from the 

 report of Mr. Jefferson Butler, field agent 

 for the Association in Michigan, shows 

 something of his activities during the 

 three months ending July i, and may be 

 of interest to our members and others. 



"On April 2, I attended the meeting 

 of the Michigan Association of Sportsmen 

 at Saginaw; April 3, I spoke before the 

 College Club of Detroit; April 4, before 

 a Forestry Conference; April 5, spoke at 

 Lansing; April 6, took teachers for outing; 

 April 10, had a conference at Grosse 

 Pointe; April 12, went to Washington, 

 D. C, where I spoke at the Cosmos Club 

 on the Ford Bird Farm. While there, I 

 conferred with a number of Congressmen 



in regard to the bill protecting migratory- 

 birds. April 23, spoke at Conference 

 regarding prizes for bird work in schools; 

 April 24, addressed Church Club of boys 

 at the Dearborn Conference regarding 

 bird work; April 26, addressed Detroit 

 Institute of Science on Audubon work; 

 .\pril 27, headed party on Bird-study 

 outing; and April 30, attended a confer- 

 ence on bird protection, at Oakwood, 

 Michigan. During April, I contributed to 

 the New Thought Magazine on Audubon 

 work, and to one of the Detroit newspapers. 



In May, I took charge of a number of 

 outings; May 3, Arbor and Bird Day, 

 spoke at two schools in Detroit; May 4, 

 spoke at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, and 

 took charge of an outing; May 6 and 7, 

 took teachers and students on outings; 

 May 10, spoke at Normal School to 

 graduating class; May 11-12, took trip 

 along Lake St. Clair and St. Clair River, 

 to study water-birds, and addressed the 

 North Channel Club on the preservation 

 of game-birds and waders; May 15, con- 

 ducted another teachers' outing, to study 

 birds, and did the same again on May 18; 

 May 19, went for an outing with Detroit 

 Institute of Science along Detroit River, 

 in study of conditions of water-birds; 

 May 21, spoke before the Southern Society 

 of Detroit on Audubon work; May 23 

 and 25, headed outing; May 29, spoke 

 at outdoor conference; May 30, conducted 

 outing from McGregor Institute. During 

 May I published two articles on Audubon 

 work. 



"June 5, spoke in suburban school; 

 June 6-7, went to Windiateand Clarkston, 

 to investigate condition of water-birds 

 in inland lakes, and to investigate destruc- 

 tion of Great Blue Heron colony; June 

 10, spoke at Delray school; June 11, 

 addressed Alger school; June 12, spoke 

 at Conservation Congress, Lansing, Mich- 

 igan; June 13, spoke at Irving school; 

 June 15, at Masonic Temple on bird 

 protection; June 17, went to Bloomfield 

 Hills to investigate killing of song-birds; 

 June 18, presented prizes for best bird 

 study at Nichols school, Detroit; June 

 21, went to Tecumsch, Canada, to investi- 



