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chart from a drawing by Mr. Fuertes, which is being published for us by 

 the Milton Bradley Company, of Springfield. 



In September the services of Mr. Winthrop Packard were secured as Field 

 Secretary of the Society. Mr. Packard is widely known as a writer on nature 

 topics and the author of many successful books. He has begun an energetic 

 campaign for increased membership in the society, instructing and encouraging 

 local secretaries, and teachers of Junior Classes. — Jessie E. Kimball, Sec- 

 retary. 



Michigan. — By the earnest efforts of Jefferson Butler, President of the 

 Michigan Audubon Society, great good is being brought about directly and 

 indirectly. In the past year he has given sixty-seven lectures before various 

 organizations, including colleges, schools, women's clubs, sportsmen's clubs, 

 church societies, fraternal organizations. He has directed several outings 

 for boys as well as for adults, organized twenty Junior Societies, decided seven 

 contests for prizes in schools and wrote twenty-two articles for magazines 

 and newspapers. Mr. Butler's earnestness took him to Washington, where 

 he addressed a number of congressmen on the bill giving the federal govern- 

 ment control over migratory birds. During the year he deemed it advisable 

 to prosecute nine cases and posted fifty signs on public highways and in inter- 

 urban cars; also gave warning notices on twenty-two complaints of infraction 

 of game law. 



Governor Osborn has appointed Mr. Butler State Humane Marshal, and 

 he is now in a position to further his good work more directly. He is taking 

 up legislative matters, and proposes a bill prohibiting the selling of aigrettes, 

 providing for a Game Commissioner and a hunters' license bill and the abolish- 

 ing of spring-shooting. He is also negotiating with the national government 

 to have one of the islands in Lake St. Clair set aside as a national preserve 

 and nesting-place for Terns and Gulls. 



Credit is due Clara Bates, of Traverse City, for the splendid efforts for 

 bird-study and bird-protection by interesting her readers of the Sunshine 

 Department in the Traverse City paper which she edits. Grace Greenwood 

 Browne has aided in the good work with articles in the Harbor Beach Times, 

 especially interesting to the boys and girls as well as adults. 



The Michigan Federation of Women's Clubs have an Audubon Committee 

 of which Mrs. Edith Munger, of Hart, is Chairman, and through this committee 

 many women's clubs are reached as well as schools. The Secretary has 

 delivered several addresses before women's clubs, schools and other gather- 

 ings — she has also distributed hundreds of pages of Hterature, including 

 books on birds and their habits; written articles for the press; had built and 

 distributed bird-houses among the children to place about their homes, in 

 parks and cemeteries. 



Mr. Wm. B. Mershon, of Saginaw, will again this year give medals to the 



