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Meriden (N. H.) Bird Club. — ^All the regular activities of the Club have 

 been carried on as usual during the past year. "Bird Sunday" was observed in 

 the village for the fourth successive year, and the congregations of both churches, 

 with many visitors, gathered in the Bird Sanctuary to hear Rev. Noble 0. 

 Bowlby preach a sermon on birds. We have had three lectures: "How to Have 

 Bird Neighbors," by Mrs. S. Louise Patteson; "Wild Birds and How to Attract 

 Them," and "Animals Used in Modern Warfare," both by Ernest Harold 

 Baynes. We also had an entertainment by Miss Matthews, who sang folk-songs. 

 In August we opened an exhibition of war posters, in charge of Mrs. Wilfred 

 Barnes, a member of the Club. 



The Secretary has kept in touch with the numerous bird clubs which have 

 been founded through our influence, and our General Manager has organized 

 sixty-four new clubs within the year. Most of these were established during a 

 lecture tour in New York and New England. We have raised, chiefly by sub- 

 scription, about $2,300 for the purpose of converting an old colonial house, 

 standing in the Bird Sanctuary, into a museum of bird-conservation. Work 

 on the building has been proceeding all summer under the direction of Miss 

 Annie H. Duncan, a member of the Club, and will soon be completed. — 

 (Miss) Elizabeth F. Bennett, Secretary. 



Minneapolis (Minn.) Audubon Society. — During the past year the Society 

 has continued to hold its regular meetings, although the attendance has been 

 affected by the many pressing demands of war-work. 



It has also maintained the Bird Museum — a permanent exhibition of bird- 

 study materials opened in 191 7. The Public Library Board has kindly given the 

 use of two rooms in a fine fireproof Branch Library, where our collection of 500 

 mounted birds of the Northwest has been installed, together with a growing 

 collection of model bird-houses, nests, eggs, charts and books, a Bausch & 

 Lomb balopticon, and 50 slides relating to bird-life. With the Museum serving 

 as a nucleus, we hope to stimulate more interest in birds among the people of 

 our city. Junior Audubon Classes have been organized in about thirty of 

 the public schools. A strong desire was felt for a bird-study class, but no 

 leader was available during the winter months, so a specially welcome feat- 

 ure of last spring was a series of twenty lectures, illustrated with slides and 

 films, on "The Bird," given to our members by Dr. T. S. Roberts, State 

 Ornithologist and long-time bird-student. — Gertrude P. Wicks, Secretary. 



Minnesota Game-Protective League. — We have not put forth any effort 

 during the past \ear to increase our membership or start any new work, but 

 have just done enough to keep the organization intact and to keep close 

 watch on wild-life conditions so that no opening uj) of the laws will he brought 

 about by those who would destroy the wild life with the excuse_that,'due to 

 the war, the game-birds and animals could be made to supply the people with 



