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hearty good will toward the Junior Class work which it believes to be one of very 

 great importance in the educational field. 



During March the annual course of lectures by the most distinguished 

 authorities on bird-life was held in Tremont Temple, with an attendance at 

 each lecture of about 1,500. The speakers were Clinton G. Abbott, of New 

 York; Dr. Arthur A. Allen, of Cornell University; T. Gilbert Pearson, Secre- 

 tary of the National Association of Audubon Societies; William L. Finley, of 

 Oregon ; and Charles C. Gorst, of Cambridge, Mass. At the Society's Annual 

 Mass Meeting in Tremont Temple, Ernest Harold Baynes and Mr. Gorst 

 addressed an audience of some 2,500. 



The Secretary has lectured as usual during the year throughout the state, 

 doing his best to interest clubs, schools, granges and other societies in the cause. 

 Unable to attend fully to the increasing demands, he has been ably assisted in 

 this work by Miss Ruth E. Rouillard, of the office staff; Mrs. F. B. Goode, 

 Local Secretary for Sharon; Rev. Henry Sartorio, of Boston, who appeared 

 before various Italian societies of Greater Boston, speaking in Italian; and 

 Charles B. Floyd, President of the Brookline Bird Club. 



Through traveling lectures, traveling libraries, bird-charts, bird-calendars, 

 bird-houses and supplies of all kinds, advice and assistance at the office, corres- 

 pondence and personal inspection, in a hundred other ways too numerous to 

 mention, the Society has, during the past year, labored faithfully, and, it feels, 

 with a modest measure of success for the better protection of birds. — Winthrop 

 Packard, Secretary. 



Michigan Audubon Society. — Our Society records about 100 lectures 

 given by its officers to more than 15,000 individuals, chiefly school-children; 

 the placing of 200 Audubon charts in schools, with helps for the teachers; a 

 splendid exhibit (see the photograph) at Mid-winter Rally and the Oceana 

 County Fair; the usual amount of literature distributed and letters written; 

 and much publicity for the cause through the newspapers and the Michigan 

 Sportsman. 



At the annual meeting in February at Battle Creek, instructive addresses 

 were given by representatives of the State Game Warden Department and the 

 Public Domain Commission, and the local Audubon school clubs reported an 

 outside feeding-station maintained by each school in the city. In the evening 

 'The Spirit of Audubon' film was presented to a large and delighted audience. 



Through the efforts of the local Society, a cat license ordinance was passed 

 in Grand Rapids, requiring a tax of 50 cents on male and $1.00 on female cats 

 in that city. At the last state legislative session, a law, which we helped agitate 

 for, was passed giving the right to owners of property and officers to kill all 

 cats destroying game, birds, or poultry. Thus is the anti-cat sentiment grow- 

 ing. 



Around the state, Audubon Societies at Greenville, Ann Arbor, Portland, 



