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the other set is to be used by the Field Secretary only. Bird-talks have been 

 given before schools, churches, county and farmers' institutes, women's clubs, 

 etc. Ernest Harold Baynes, in his Chautauqua work in Indiana, has been organ- 

 izing bird clubs. 



The Indiana Audubon Society has lost two good friends and helpers : One, 

 Jane L. Hine, was a lover of birds, a helper in every bird organization, and a 

 writer of bird-poems of unusual charm; the other, Dr. David Worth Dennis, 

 who for so many years was the biologist of Earlham College. Dr. Dennis was 

 a charter member of the Society. He was always present at its conventions 

 and was president for three successive years. The memorial prepared by Alden 

 H. Hadley will be published in the proceedings of the Academy of Science, of 

 which Dr. Dennis was also a charter member. — Elizabeth H. Downhour, 

 Secretary. 



Kentucky Audubon Society. — During the past year the Kentucky 

 Audubon Society has put out no legislative propaganda nor employed any 

 public speakers. Its activities have been limited to indulging in its customary 

 series of bird-walks during the spring migratory period and to fathering certain 

 educational works in the public schools, including a number of prizes awarded 

 to manual training classes for the construction and maintenance of bird-nest- 

 ing and -feeding-houses. The membership has increased slightly the past year. 

 — Eugene Simpson, Assistant Secretary. 



Massachusetts Audubon Society. — The Society feels that one important 

 work done by it since September, 1916, has been its help toward the passage of 

 the Enabling Act which is needed to make the Migratory Bird Treaty with 

 Great Britain and Canada vital. Its officers and many of its members worked 

 ceaselessly to arouse public sentiment in favor of this act, and it brought all 

 possible legitimate influence to bear on its Senators and Congressmen at Wash- 

 ington. Realizing the value of the efforts to this same end being put forth by 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies of New York, under the able 

 leadership of its Secretary, T. Gilbert Pearson, it contributed $1,500 to the cam- 

 paign, which has since proved so effective. 



During the year the Society added 417 sustaining members to its list and 

 increased its life membership by 39, making its total of sustaining members 

 listed since its organization 3,188, its life members being now 441. For many 

 years, through the courtesy of the National Association, the Junior Classes in 

 bird-study have been conducted in this state by the Massachusetts Society. 

 This work, during the past year, has been taken over by the National Associa- 

 tion but has been conducted by the same staff, from its headquarters at the 

 same address, and with the same excellent results. In relinquishing the work 

 the Massachusetts Society wishes to express its appreciation of the courtesy 

 extended by the National Association in this, as in so many other ways, and its 



