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our principal speaker, Norman McClintock, of Pittsburgh. More than 1,000 

 people attended his first public lecture. In the evening he was given a reception 

 at the Herron Art Institute, which was attended by more than 200 invited 

 guests. After the reception he showed his moving pictures of bird-life, which 

 were truly wonderful. These films represent the highest stage of modern 

 motion photography. 



On the second day, early bird-hikes were taken and at noon we held our 

 annual business session at Riverside Park pavilion, after which we took a 

 tramp up the old canal for a distance of two miles to a beautifully wooded 

 tract where the Indiana Nature Study Club put on the pageant 'Spring.' 

 This was indeed a most beautiful and appropriate spectacle. Following this 

 we took another tramp of a mile after which more than one hundred of our 

 members sat down to an elaborate chicken dinner which ended the program. 



Our Executive Committee is planning an active program for the coming 

 year, and it is our intention to direct our energies very largely to encouraging 

 bird-study in the public schools, believing this the most fertile soil for cultiva- 

 tion, because if we teach children of this generation to love and enjoy the birds, 

 they will accomplish more in their protection than all the game-wardens that 

 can be employed by the state. — Frank C. Evans, Secretary. 



Maryland. — The year 1921-22 ends for the Maryland Audubon Society 

 with a record of great activity and substantial growth. The Society held 

 fourteen meetings at the Maryland Academy of Sciences, of which six were 

 devoted to study-talks directed by Chalmers Brumbaugh and illustrated by 

 mounted specimens of bird-skins. One evening of moving pictures, loaned by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, was open to the public. 



At the other meetings the Society was addressed by: Dr. Paul Bartsch, 

 Dr. T. S. Palmer, and Dr. Harry C. Oberholser, of Washington, D. C; and 

 Dr. A. A. Allen, of Ithaca, N. Y. Other addresses were made by J. M. Sommers 

 and Frederick C. Lincoln. 



Three bird-walks were taken, led by Percy T. Blogg. The president of the 

 Society gave two talks on the need for bird-protection to women's clubs and 

 attended the convention of the National Association of Audubon Societies in 

 New York City, where the Maryland Audubon Society was especially com- 

 mended for its splendid record for the year 1920-21. 



On May 16, the Society held a joint meeting in the Engineering Hall of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, with the Hopkins Naturalists' Club, the Guilford 

 Association, and the Wild Flower Protection Association, at which Dr. A. A. 

 Allen, of Cornell University, was the speaker. His subject was 'Birds and 

 Flowers,' and was illustrated with lantern slides, photographed and colored 

 by himself. This meeting, to which the public was invited, was largely attended 

 and formed a fitting close to a series of lectures by some of the foremost orni- 

 thologists of the country. 



