Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 



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some legislation passed. Our bill, introduced and warmly sponsored by State 

 Senator A. J. Sawyer, of Lincoln, providing for a closed season on Doves, 

 successfully passed and became a law. However, a provision for the setting 

 apart of certain designated areas, both wooded lands and some lake regions 

 in the sand-hill country, failed of passage. 



Our members have been most keenly interested in the efforts of the National 

 Association to preserve the Migratory Bird Law and the Treaty with Great 

 Britain. Numerous telegrams and letters were sent to Washington to our 

 Senators and Representatives and to committees in behalf of these 

 measures. 



The 200 suet-holders which were purchased early last fall by the Society and 

 placed in the parks and along the boulevards, were certainly a delight to our 

 winter visitants and sojourners. The suet was provided by the Society, and 

 the Committee, aided by the Boy Scouts, kept the holders replenished. 



The Society purchased, through the National Geographic Society, a set of 

 fifty slides of Nebraska birds, painted by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. These beauti- 



ON THE SHORE, CHILD'S POINT BIRD SANCTUARY, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. 



ful slides have been of tremendous value to our work. Requests for the use of 

 them have come to us from all over the state, and they have made a dozen 

 journeys to different towns in Nebraska and Iowa. The slides have been shown 

 a score of times in Omaha at churches, settlement and civic centers, with 

 lectures by our President, Dr. Towne, and others. Enos Mills' lecture on 



