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Our President, Miss Martha Banks, passed on from this Hfe in December, 

 191 7, and we feel her loss keenly as a friend as well as a leader and teacher in this 

 work which she had begun. We are trying to carry it on as best we may, and 

 feel that these small soldiers of Uncle Sam, the birds, will most surely help 

 to win the war. The Club has made a donation of $10 to the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies, and our members aim to obtain new subscribers 

 each year for membership in this and the National Association. A vote was 

 taken at our last meeting for the Neighborhood Nature Club to become a sus- 

 taining member of the National Association. 



When the need seemed apparent for supporting the Enabling Act for the 

 protection of migratory birds, our members wrote to the state representative, 

 asking his influence in passing this bill. The Club is planning a lecture, with 

 lantern-slide views of birds, to be given soon, and, perhaps, before winter is 

 past, a film at the local moving-picture house. So, in many ways, we hope to 

 forward the work. — (Mrs.) H. P. Beers, Secretary-Treasurer . 



New Century (Utica, N. Y.) Club.— The New Century Club has re- 

 sponded to the requests of the National Association of Audubon Societies 

 to further, as far as possible, right legislation for bird-protection. The 

 Club posts on its bulletin board the leaflets the Association sends. Reports of 

 birds seen and any interesting facts about birds are given at every meeting of 

 the Science Department. We expect to continue the membership of the Club 

 in the National Association. — Elizabeth G. Brown. 



Oil City (Pa.) Audubon Club. — Our Society has not yet been organized a 

 year, only since last spring, yet we feel that it has been very much worth while. 

 We have twenty-six members, some of them very enthusiastic, several being 

 especially well posted on bird-lore. At one meeting we took up the study of 

 the migration of birds. This proved a most interesting session. Another time 

 we enjoyed an evening with the stereoplicon, showing the conservation of our 

 forests and the important part taken by our birds in this very necessary work. 

 Our May meeting was held in the woods, and a pocket-lunch was taken along 

 so we could stay for the cxening songs. — (Miss) Hattie Goold, Secretary. 



Pasadena (Calif.) Audubon Society. — Five meetings were held during the 

 season, at one of which Prof. Alfred Cookman gave a talk on "Ten Days 

 Observation on the Bird-Life of the Coronados Islands.'' These islands are 

 three small mountain peaks in Mexican waters off the coast of Lower Cali- 

 fornia. At another meeting, Prof. Charles L. Thompson read a paper entitled 

 "The Lake of Lingering Death," the lake in question being La Brea, a curious 

 oil-deposit near Los Angeles in which have been found countless remains of 

 prehistoric animals and birds. At this meeting papers were also read by the 

 President and V^ice-President of the Los Angeles Audubon Society. The other 



