State Audubon Reports 



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REPORTS OF STATE SOCIETIES 



California. — We are delighted to report a most prosperous year in the 

 work of the Audubon Society of California. There have come to us, from widely 

 separated portions of the state, more calls than usual for leaflets and infor- 

 mation in regard to the work, showing that gradually our educational campaign 

 is reaching into the most distant parts of this great commonwealth. In response 

 to these, we issued an excellent leaflet on the economic value of birds, a digest 

 of the state game laws, and a list of publications helpful in bird-study. We 

 also had printed large pasteboard cards warning the public against bird- 

 killing. 



Miss Gretchen L. Libby, who started her work as School Secretary for 

 this Society, has been doing splendid work as Educational Assistant to the 



CALIFORNIA AUDUBON SOCIETY AT OUT-OF-DOOR MEETING 

 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 



State Fish and Game Commission. She is the author of an excellent bulletin, 

 'Bird-Study in the Schools,' which the Commission is distributing among the 

 teachers of the state. Miss Libby visited 30 counties, 87 towns, 154 schools, 

 giving 400 talks in which she reached 25,000 people, including adults and 

 children. Besides these lectures given by Miss Libby, several have been given 

 in the southern part of the state by other Audubon workers. During last 

 August our National Secretary, T. Gilbert Pearson, visited the state, and gave 

 three splendid illustrated lectures in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Riverside. 

 These were well attended and much good to the cause is resulting from them. 



