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Sage Foundation Homes Company, which are attached to the lamp-posts at 

 ten important street-corners, and upon which bird notes are posted weekly 

 in the spring and fall. 



The Society owes much to its president, now unfortunately about to resign, 

 Mr. E. A. Quarles, vice-president of the American Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation, under whose expert- guidance the work of the Gardens was begun. 

 — Mary E. Knevels, Secretary. 



Groton (Mass.) Bird Club. — This Club was organized at a meeting of 

 about thirty-five interested persons on December 15, 1913. About ten days 

 previous a well-attended public meeting in the Town Hall had been addressed 

 by Ernest Harold Baynes, who graphically described and pictured the methods 

 used and the results obtained by the Meriden Bird Club, which he had founded. 

 It is upon this club that the Groton Bird Club, as well as many other similar 

 organizations, is patterned. 



After the adoption of a constitution and election of officers, the first meet- 

 ing of the Club adjourned, and the Board of Directors met to plan the work to 

 be done. The president was directed to appoint committees on winter-feeding 

 and on nesting-boxes. Miss Gertrude Gerrish was appointed to take charge of 

 the Junior department. This appointment subsequently proved to be the most 

 important action taken at the meeting, for the most effective work which the 

 Club has accomplished thus far has unquestionably been the arousing of interest 

 in birds among the children. At this meeting of the Board of Directors it was 

 decided to make the reading of a paper by some one person, a member pref- 

 erably, a regular feature of the monthly meetings, this to be followed by a 

 comparison of notes by all members present. In practice, however, it has been 

 found necessary to procure outside talent to a large extent to address the 

 meetings ; and the Club has been fortunate in having many interesting speakers 

 who have been willing to come to Groton for their expenses only. Among these 

 have been Dr. John May, Frederic H. Kennard, Charles B. Floyd, Rev. 

 Manley Townsend, Henry Oldys, and Winthrop Packard. In addition to the 

 regular Club meeting, a public meeting in November, 1914, under the joint 

 auspices of the Grange and the Bird Club, was addressed by Mr. Forbush, and 

 was well attended, and at another, in February, 1916, Herbert K. Job showed 

 his wonderful moving pictures to a large audience. 



The Committee on Nesting-boxes was able, through the generosity of a 

 member of the Club, to place about forty-five boxes on the public common and 

 along the main highways. Though it was feared that the situations chosen 

 would not prove very favorable, it was felt by the committee that, in view of 

 the semi-public character of the Club, these boxes should be placed in public 

 places rather than on private grounds. Through the Club's initiative, however, 

 a considerable number of boxes were purchased and sold to members at cost, 

 encouraging private enterprise. Results the first season have not been all 



