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of the schools and placed in the cemeteries. A public exhibit of these boxes 

 attracted much attention. The Society is cooperating with the Society for the 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests with a view of securing the setting aside 

 of the White Mountains National Forest Reservation as a permanent wild- 

 life sanctuary, similar to the Yellowstone National Park. At the annual meet- 

 ing Prof. Leland Griggs, Ph.D., of Dartmouth College, lectured delightfully 

 on 'Nesting Time.' — Menley B. Townsend, Secretary. 



New Jersey Audubon Society. — The principal activities of this Society 

 for the past year have been in legislative work on behalf of a bill to license cats 

 and a bill to take the Bobolink out of the game class; against a bill to provide 

 a bounty for Crows and Hawks, to be killed at any time of year, in the state ; 

 and, in the national field, in behalf of the appropriation for enforcing the 

 Federal Migratory Bird Law and the ratification of the treaty with Canada. 

 We were successful in defeating the bounty bill, but failed to enact the two 

 bills advocated. Educational work has proceeded by furnishing to the press 

 of the state a number of pertinent articles relative to the cause of bird-protec- 

 tion, which were well accepted; twelve lectures delivered by the secretary to 

 associations, clubs and schools; the conducting of the usual campaign, in co- 

 operation with the National Association of Audubon Societies to develop the 

 work of Junior Audubon Classes in the schools of the state; the publishing of 

 five issues of the New Jersey Audubon Bulletin, containing six halftone illus- 

 trations; and the cooperating with the Englewood Bird Club in giving an 

 exhibit in Englewood of devices for attracting and fostering birds. 



The membership now stands: Patrons, 8; life members, 19; sustaining mem- 

 bers, 213; members, 1,058; associate members, 242; junior members, 33,780, 

 total, 35,320. The officers and Board of Trustees are the same as last year. 



At the public session of the sixth annual meeting at the Newark Free 

 Public Library, October 3, Howard H. Cleaves, of the Public Museum, 

 New Brighton, N. Y., gave an illustrated lecture on 'Experiences in Photo- 

 graphing Wild Birds,' which was well attended. — B. S. Bowdish, Secretary. 



Oregon Audubon Society. — Our Society has had a busy and reasonably 

 profitable year. The Junior work for the state has been conducted through this 

 Society, resulting in a more intimate touch with the teachers, and thereby 

 more enthusiastic and profitable work with the pupils. We have given many 

 popular bird-talks during the season to societies and schools. We are not able 

 to meet all the demands upon us, the requests coming, as they do, from many 

 directions and from long distances. We try to instil a genuine love and appre- 

 ciation for the subject. For our work in country halls and schools, and because 

 we could not always have the use of lantern-slides, we bought a fine new Bausch- 

 Lomb projectoscope, which carries either slides or colored prints. For this 

 we have made a large collection of prints, well mounted for facility in handling. 



