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mingle on all occasions. On Arbor Day we planted a memorial elm. In May' 

 when tent caterpillars swarmed in hordes along the roadsides, our Club was the 

 first organization in the state to issue a call to action in the newspapers, and 

 go out equipped to destroy the nests. 



We have had a collection of 300 bird-skins, many of them of great value, 

 donated to us by a man who formerly collected for the British Museum and 

 Smithsonian Institution. A collection of mounted ferns has been given us by 

 John Parlin, who has been associated with Fernald in collecting plants for the 

 Harvard herbarium. Thirty mounted birds have come to us from a friend of 

 the Club. Our treasurer, Miss Miller, has given several talks on birds, illus- 

 trated with the Audubon charts, to the children on the community playgrounds, 

 many of whom did not know by name the only bird they were familiar with, 

 the English Sparrow. 



Believing that birds and gardens belong together, we have tried to interest 

 people in planting shrubs, flowers, and trees, feeling reasonably sure that the 

 gardener will become the bird-lover as soon as the birds attracted by his 

 planting come to live near him. We have begun the planting of a 'Peony 

 Memorial' on the college campus, where a row of named peonies borders 

 each side of a broad walk 130 feet long, in memory of the beloved professor 

 for whom our Club is named. 



The greatest joy that has come to us this year is the gift from three of our 

 members, Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Anthony and Miss Kabe Anthony of 'Thornerag,' 

 a beautiful tract of 45 acres of woodland 2 miles from town, as a memorial to 

 be known as the Stanton Bird Sanctuary. We are now incorporated 'for the 

 increase and protection of wild birds, the stimulation of an interest in bird-life, 

 and the establishment of a model bird sanctuary, and to foster and encourage 

 research work in all branches of natural science, and in general to inculcate the 

 love of nature and science, seeking to preserve God's out-of-doors and the 

 wild life therein for the present and future happiness of all our citizens to per- 

 petuate the memory of Professor Jonathan of Stanton." — Daisy Dill Norton, 

 Secretary. 



Staten Island (N, Y.) Bird Club.— During the past year the Club has con- 

 tinued its monthly walks, which have been well attended, the number parti- 

 cipating having usually been 30 to 40 people, and in one instance 70. Fre- 

 quently the walk has ended at the cabin in the woods, built by our members, 

 where coffee is made and supper is eaten around the camp-fire. The field- 

 secretary, Carol Stryker, has kept a list of the species of birds (115 in number) 

 seen on these walks. The president of the Club since 1919, William T. Davis, 

 whose interests include plants and insects as well as birds, has added to the value 

 of the walks by identifying the species encountered and by his photographs 

 of the various gatherings. 



The Club has also held four indoor meetings during the year, either in the 



