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year of the Society, and the annual meeting, with election of officers, occurs in 

 May instead of October, with the hope of having the program well in hand at 

 the opening of each year's meeting. 



The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, William 

 G. Cramer; Vice-President, Dr. Eugene Swope; Honorary Presidents, Charles 

 Dury, Dr. Randall Condow, and Dr. F. W. Langdon; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 Miss Katherine Ratterman. The Board of Directors has been enlarged and 

 now consists of twenty-one interested and able members. 



There is every prospect that the coming year will be profitable as well as 

 enjoyable to all who participate in its meetings. — (Miss) Katherine Ratter- 

 man, Secretary. 



Oregon. — The work of this Society for the year has been of the usual 

 character, active in whatever direction our energies seemed most needed. Public 

 opinion has taken us and our activities into its kind graces in such a manner 

 as to assure us a generous hearing whenever we wish it. From October i to 

 June I there were weekly talks and lectures, with slides and moving pictures, 

 given in the hall of our central library. These meetings were very popular, 

 never failing to bring out a large audience, and are to be continued another 

 year. Our Junior Audubon work, under the direction of Mrs. Mamie Campbell, 

 reports the formation of 79 Junior Societies with a membership all told of 

 1,325 children. We appreciate to the full the necessity of work with children 

 and hope to enlarge our Junior work the coming year. — (Miss) Emma J. 

 Welty, Secretary. 



Rhode Island. — On account of the many and unusual demands which the 

 war made upon our members and officials, and upon the teachers and others 

 who cooperate with us, the work of the Society has, undoubtedly, suffered. 

 The number of new Juniors has been the lowest recorded for some time. The 

 circulation of books from the Society's library has, likewise, been at a relatively 

 low figure, though the record for the year shows: 



Circulation from Museum 2,594, Books 426, Among 120. 



Circulation of Traveling Library 876, Books 129, Among 405. 



The report, therefore, for the past year consists in the statement that the 

 Society has marked time and has made every effort, consistent with existing 

 conditions, to keep alive the interest in the bird-life of the state. The coming 

 year should bring with it a reawakening of interest in bird-life, and the Society 

 is planning to stimulate this interest through its Junior work and its circulating 

 library. — H. L. Madison, Secretary. 



Utah. — The Utah Audubon Society has been organized but one year; and 

 its activities can be measured, not as a whole, but by the efforts of its individual 

 members. President J. H. Paul, as Professor of Nature-study in the Extension 



