428 Bird -Lore 



For the greater part of the year we edited an Audubon Page in the 'Feder- 

 ation Courier,' which is the ofificial organ of the Federated Women's Clubs 

 of California, Utah, and Nevada. In this way the work of the Society reached 

 thousands of women who otherwise would know nothing of it. 



The past year has seen in Los Angeles the completion of a splendid public 

 museum building. Though not as yet formally opened to the public, Mr. 

 Charles Daggett, a prominent member of the Cooper Ornithological Club, 

 has been elected curator, and is rapidly installing habitat groups of birds, 

 skins, nests, eggs, photographs and paintings. Upon request of the artist, 

 Mr. Bruce Horsfall, the McClurg Publishing Company, of Chicago, has loaned 

 to this Society, for exhibition in this museum, the seven original paintings 

 which were to illustrate Mrs. Irene Grosvenor Wheelock's 'Birds of California.' 



During the year, the Cooper Ornithological Club appointed a Committee 

 on the Conservation of Wild Life in California. Through this committee 

 an effort is being made to band together all organizations in the state that are 

 interested in the preservation of the wild life, and we will work together for 

 better laws along this line. Many game-birds of the state are disappearing, 

 and an effort will be made at the coming session of the legislature to secure 

 needed restrictions in the hunting laws. 



With public sentiment greatly in favor of our work, with the newspapers 

 of the state endorsing our efforts, we look back upon a year of good work and 

 press forward to greater activities. — Harriet Williams Myers, Secretary. 



District of Columbia. — Since our last report we have had four pubHc lect- 

 ures, — the first a delightful illustrated one by Mr. William L. Finley, his 

 subject being 'Wild Bird Reservations.' At our annual meeting, in January, 

 we were fortunate in having with us Mr. C. WiUiam Beebe, who gave us 

 an intensely interesting and beautifully illustrated lecture entitled, 'A Natural- 

 ist in Ceylon and the Himalayas.' Our old officers were reelected upon this 

 occasion, and our treasurer reported a goodly balance on hand. 



The third entertainment, 'Our Wild Song Birds,' was by Mr. Edward 

 Avis, and was most enjoyable. This was repeated the next afternoon for 

 the benefit of our Junior Members, and to interest the school children. It 

 was given in the lecture hall of one of our large school-buildings, and long 

 before the time for beginning, the hall was packed, and they were obliged to 

 close the doors and turn many children away. Our last lecture was by Mr. 

 Jefiferson Butler on 'The Henry Ford Bird Preserve.' 



On the evening of March 6, our Society gave a reception to its members 

 and their friends at the charming home of Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, our 

 former Secretary and the founder of our Society. Owing to the inclemency 

 of the day, the attendance was smaller than we had hoped for, but all present 

 seemed to enjoy themselves, and we had a most delightful surprise in the 

 unexpected pleasure of having Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, of New York, our 



