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With the opportunities which our Society offers for study and entertain- 

 ment, we may confidently expect to continue to enlarge our membership and 

 increase our usefulness to the community. — (Mrs.) Baker Hull, President. 



Massachusetts. — We are glad to report a busy and, we believe, an effective 

 year's work. The sustaining membership steadily increases, being now well 

 over the 4,000 mark. We also have enrolled to date 669 life members. To the 

 backing of this large body of devoted and enthusiastic members the Society 

 owes such measure of success as it has attained. The office at 66 Newbury 

 Street, Boston, has come to be recognized as state headquarters for information 

 and assistance in all matters of bird-study and bird-protection. From it 

 steadily go forth literature, traveling lectures, lecturers, definite plans and 

 instructions for bird- work of all kinds, help to birds and bird-lovers. 



The Society continues to publish its Bulletin which grows in size and the 

 interest and importance of the matter contained. The Bulletin goes free 

 monthly to all sustaining and life members. Its annual calendar, beautifully 

 illustrated with colored pictures of birds, through the courtesy of the National 

 Association, reaches an edition of 2,000 this year. Its three Bird-Charts, 

 showing seventy-two birds, life size and in colors, carry the good work of the 

 Society into schools, libraries, and private homes in practically every state 

 in the Union. 



The past year has been one of great importance in its Sanctuary work. 

 Through the generosity of more than a thousand of its members it was enabled 

 to purchase an estate of 45 acres, with suitable buildings for a permanent 

 home for its Bird Sanctuary. The location is in the midst of a region filled 

 with bird-life, at Sharon, Mass., 18 miles from Boston and easily reached by 

 railroad or motor. Owners of the surrounding region, to the extent of about 

 1,000 acres, have placed their lands under the care of the Society for bird- 

 protection purposes. There, under the oversight of the resident superintendent, 

 Harry G. Higbee, all wild life is protected and a perpetual demonstration of 

 the best methods of protection and Sanctuary adminstration carried on. 



That the general public appreciates the value of this work is shown by the 

 great interest taken in it. Between May 1 and September 1, 3,000 people, 

 many from distant regions, registered as visitors at this Sanctuary and carried 

 away with them at least some part of the lessons demonstrated there. In all 

 its work, as in previous years, the Massachusetts Society appreciates the good 

 will and friendly guidance of the National Association of Audubon Societies. — 

 Winthrop Packard, Secretary-Treasurer. 



Michigan. — The activities of this Society for the five years past have 

 consisted chiefly of those of our devoted president, Mrs. Edith C. Munger, 

 who alone has kept the Society alive against a time of possible rejuvenation. 

 Her Bird Study Outline, prepared as Audubon Chairman of the State Federa- 



