Report of the Secretary 3Q3 



SUMMER SCHOOLS 



The Association's experiment in conducting courses in bird -study in summer 

 schools for teachers has proven a success. The past summer, for the third 

 time, we arranged with the directors of a number of summer schools for giv- 

 ing instruction in bird-study and bird-protection, the expense being borne 

 jointly by the Association and the colleges where the work was done. The 

 past season the following instruction was given : 



Prof. J. Bowie Ferneyhough gave the bird-work at the University of Vir- 

 ginia this summer, consisting of a six-weeks' course of lectures, laboratory 

 work, and field excursions. Eighteen pupils took the course; fifteen passed 

 final examinations satisfactorily and obtained credit on the primary and 

 grammar grade professional certificate. 



Prof. Ralph Hubbard, of Cornell University, presented a course in bird- 

 study at the University of Colorado, at Boulder. This consisted of classroom 

 work, laboratory periods, and field-trips. Two public lectures were given. 

 The course was six weeks in length. Sixteen students took the course as regu- 

 lar college work, fourteen of them receiving credit. 



Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York City, taught bird-study for four weeks at the Summer School of the South, 

 Knoxville, Tenn. Twenty-six students took the course. Four public lectures 

 were given before the University and one before the Audubon Society of West 

 Tennessee. 



Dr. Eugene Swope worked for four weeks at the State University of Florida, 

 at Gainesville. Fifty-four pupils registered. He was able to arrange to have 

 his bird-students receive the same credit as in such regular college courses in 

 history, English, physiology, etc. Dr. Swope seems to have been rather severe 

 in his final examinations, for he passed only nine for full credit. Some of his 

 field-walks were given at 4.30 a.m., and the attendance on these occasions 

 varied from eight to sixteen. 



Miss Lillian Finnell, of Tuskaloosa, Ala., arranged to give one lecture at 

 seven summer schools in Alabama and Mississippi, and by visiting classrooms 

 and otherwise meeting teachers, presented the subject in detail. She did this 

 work at the following places : University of Alabama ; Agricultural and Mechani- 

 cal College; Mississippi College; University of Mississippi; Mississippi Indus- 

 trial Institute; Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical Institute; and Howard 

 College, at Birmingham, Ala. 



Prof. Charles S. Brumbaugh, of Cornell University, gave a course in bird- 

 study at the Maryland Agricultural College. Thirty took the course, and five 

 secured college credit marks. The course given was closely modeled after that 

 regularly given by Prof. A. A. Allen at Cornell. Slides, lectures, and field- 

 walks were used for demonstration purposes. 



Dr. Clifton Hodge, probably the most popular nature lecturer in this 



