432 Bird - Lore 



I talked with Mr. Amos W. Butler today. He has many good suggestions 

 on bird-protection, so a meeting of the Indiana Audubon Society is called for 

 Monday, October 28, 191 2, in Mr. Butler's office, Room 93 State House, 

 at 3.30 P.M. 



The place of next spring's meeting will be discussed, lending a helping 

 hand toward the Arbor and Bird Day Annual to be issued this year, and 

 better bird-protection in Indiana — all these, and more important questions, 

 will be discussed. 



Of course, you know the Indiana Nature Study Club belongs to the Audu- 

 bon Society. This club has tramps every two weeks, beginning in late spring, 

 and continuing all summer up to October. In winter we have lectures every 

 two weeks by such men as Dr. C. F. Hodge, Professor Mills, of Colorado, 

 and Mr. Alden Hadley, who has spent much time in Florida, and has told 

 us of our summer residents down there in winter. In this club there are over 

 a hundred members, with a small percentage of young people. 



Mr. William Watson Woollen is President of the Nature Study Club. 

 Some of the members who came into the Nature Study Club have also joined 

 the Audubon Society. All of this thought for the wild birds, together with 

 the excellent work of Miss McClellan, who is at the head of nature work in the 

 city schools, has spread, until it seems the fashion to have some song-bird's 

 nest in one's yard. 



I am sending Mr. Stockbridge's report from the Allen County Audubon 

 Society of Indiana. — Elizabeth Downhour, Secretary. 



Maine. — Lectures before local branches have been given in some parts of 

 the state. Local secretaries, in several instances, have given talks before 

 schools and Sunday-schools, illustrated by lantern-slides. — ^Arthur H. Norton, 

 Secretary. 



Maryland. — An effort was made by the Maryland Audubon Society to 

 have passed at the last session of the Maryland Legislature an anti-plumage 

 bill, which would have prevented the importing of any insectivorous birds for 

 millinerj' purposes. In its effort, the Society had the support of the entire 

 press. This was one of many reform bills presented to the Maryland Legis- 

 lature. But Maryland, with the other states of our country, will have to learn 

 that she must elect the right kind of law-makers before she can hope for model 

 laws. 



The consideration of the bill was skilfully postponed until in the rush 

 of the last few days there was no time to deal with it. 



However, there resulted a closer union throughout the state of those 

 interested in bird-protection, an increase to the Audubon Society of some 

 valuable workers, and consequently a brighter prospect of winning our fight 

 in the future. 



