The Audubon Societies 



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LIST OF coNTRiiunoKS, continued 



Brought forward $3.77i So 



Phinney, CO i 00 



Prall, Mr. J. II i 00 



Parla^hv, Princc«s LuofT i 00 



Pulilzcr, Mr. Ralph 10 00 



Qiiimljy, Eunice W i 00 



Randolph, IMi. Coleman 5 00 



Randolph, Miss Fanny F.... 5 00 



Reeves, Mr. C. H i 00 



Roberts, Miss Mary A 2 50 



Rogers, Mrs. Hubert E 2 00 



Sawyer, Mrs. C. R i 00 



Searles, J. M i 00 



Sheffield, Mr. G. St. J 5 00 



Scofield, Marion 10 00 



Slade, Mr. Francis Louis i 00 



Slingluffs, Mrs. K i 00 



Smillie, Mr. James C i 00 



Smith, Mr. Albert J i 00 



Smith, H. A i 00 



Snow, Mr. Elbridge G 5 00 



Sturgis, F. K 5 00 



Spafford, Miss Cecilia H 2 00 



Spring, Miss Anna Rikcr. ... 5 00 



Stern, Mr. Benjamin, 10 00 



Steers, Mr. James R 5 00 



Stetson, Mr. Francis Lynde . 10 00 



Stone, Miss E. B 25 00 



Stratton, Miss Katherine W. i 00 



Strj'ker, Mr. Thomas H i 00 



Tappan, Miss Mary A i 00 



Taylor, Mrs. Samuel L i 04 



Thorne, Mr. G. Wisner 5 00 



Titus, Jr., Mr. E 2 00 



Trumbull, Clara F i 00 



Troescher, Mr. A. F 10 00 



Tyzzer, Prof. E. E 3 00 



Ulman, Mrs. Carl J 2 00 



Vanderpoel, Mr. George B . . 25 00 



Vreeland, Mr. Frederick K... 2 00 



"W. F. B." I 00 



Wadsworth, Mr. Clarence S . i 00 



Weil, Mr. Richard i 00 



Wilcox, Prof. ]\I. A 10 00 



Willard, Miss Helen 3 00 



Wilson, Jr., Mr. Orme 5 00 



Wilson, Mrs. M. Orme 25 00 



Wood, Mrs. Charles 25 00 



Wyman, Helen R 5 00 



Zabriskie, Mr. Andrew C. . . . 2 00 



Total to July 2 $4,022 54 



Letters from Teachers 



Below are [irinted a few of the many 

 dozens of letters which have been received 

 from teachers who conducted Junior 

 Audubon Classes the past year, under the 

 plan provided by the Association. They 

 are reproduced for the twofold purpose 

 of acquainting our readers with the 



iliaracter of work which the teachers are 

 doing in these classes, and, second, because 

 it is believed that they contain suggestions 

 which may be of assistance to other 

 teachers just undertaking similar en- 

 deavors. 



"I want to write you about the little 

 Junior Audubon Society we had at school 

 this year. We all enjoyed it exceedingly, 

 and I am sure it did good in the hearts 

 and lives of the little people who were 

 members, and in the bird world too. 



".\ year ago, I invited the children of 

 some of the other grades to join our Audu- 

 bon class, and we had over forty members. 

 We had our meetings on Friday after- 

 noons after school. The class was quite 

 successful, and we saw some direct results 

 of its success. Several nest-robbing boys 

 gave up that "sport" altogether. One 

 boy was instrumental in bringing about 

 the arrest of some men who had been 

 shooting song-birds. 



"This year, I had the class only in my 

 own grade — the second. Almost every 

 child in the room joined, making twenty 

 members. I had daily periods for nature 

 study and language, and every other 

 Friday we used these two periods for 

 the Audubon class. The children were 

 always anxious for the Audubon Fridays 

 to come. They used often to ask, 'Is 

 tomorrow Bird Day, Miss Beth?' and if 

 I answered in the affirmative I heard 'Oh 

 goody! and I won't forget to wear my 

 button, and I wonder what bird it will be,' 

 from every side. Rarely did we have an 

 absent mark on Bird Day. 



"After we had used all of the ten leaflets 

 you had sent us, we had lessons on some 

 of the other birds, or, instead of a regular 

 lesson, we went for a bird walk. I divided 

 the class for these walks, taking ten 

 children at a time. How excited they 

 would get over the birds they saw! Nearly 

 always they could identify the birds 

 themselves. Sometimes I helped them, 

 sometimes my bird-book helped me, and 

 sometimes we had to write in the note- 

 books, 'unknown.' 



"I will not try to tell you all about the 

 good results of our Audubon class that I 



