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vania, according to the account of it sent 

 us by its leader, Miss Helen M. Sellers, 

 who says : 



"I send this little report of our work, 

 that you may rejoice with us in the in- 

 terest and enthusiasm that seems to be 

 spreading all through our town. And the 

 children have accomplished it all! Our 

 Society is young— organized January 29, 

 1915. and in order that all the leaflets may 

 be studied we have been having meetings 

 every Friday. The whole topic of con- 

 versation, these days, is birds. I cannot 

 exaggerate the enthusiasm that seems to 



Each child who brought a box was 

 given a printed list of our birds nesting in 

 boxes, and the proper dimensions for each 

 kind of box. We feel that this will greatly 

 help our work for the next year. The 

 other contests will not be closed until the 

 end of the school-year. One is for the 

 best composition showing an intimate 

 knowledge of birds. The other is for the 

 school having the largest number of clip- 

 pings in their Bird-Clippings Book. 



"So we expect to have a more beautiful 

 Chambersburg, and the children in our 

 Junior Audubon Societies will have ac- 

 complished it." 



JUXIiiR Ari)rBi)X Ct^ASS, SOMERVILLE, XEW JERSKN' 



have seized upon all. Other societies were 

 formed in several other schools, and then 

 the Civic Club began to notice our work 

 and lent a helping hand. A prize was 

 offered to the boy or girl making the best 

 bird-box. Another was offered to the one 

 making the greatest number of boxes for dif- 

 ferent birds. In the lower grades, the par- 

 ents were allowed to assist in making the 

 boxes. It was felt that by doing this the 

 parents would themselves become inter- 

 ested. The Bird-Box Exhibit was held on 

 Saturday afternoon, March 30, in the High 

 School. Two hundred boxes were exhibited, 

 and the picture represents our share of the 

 exhibit. Of course, a great many of the 

 boxes were not practical, but they served 

 their purpose of interesting the people. 



Atlantic City has a large and enthusi- 

 astic Class in the Monterey Avenue School; 

 but its leader, Miss Laura N. Herstine, 

 reports that it labors under the disadvan- 

 tage that birds are few in that crowded and 

 somewhat isolated "city by the sea." Its 

 thirty-five members voted to pay dues 

 of two cents a week, and so raise money 

 for buying the extra Educational Leaflets 

 which all are so eager to obtain. This club 

 has developed a strong interest in poetry 

 relating to birds — an excellent thing; and 

 it is unfortunate that we have not space to 

 print some of the verses written by its 



