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which doubtless will be recognized for many years as the standard work on 

 the subject. 



FIELD AGENTS 



In addition to Mr. Job the Board employed six other field agents during the 

 past year. Miss Katharine H. Stuart has continued her successful efforts in 

 arousing the people of Virginia on the subject of bird-protection. She also 

 spent a few weeks lecturing in West Virginia. Winthrop Packard, as hereto- 

 fore, has divided his time between the duties of field agent for the Association 

 and the secretaryship of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. His energy and 

 good judgment are resulting in a continuing increase of interest in Audubon 

 matters among the people of Massachusetts and the surrounding states. Dr. 

 Eugene Swope has presented the cause of bird-protection from one end of 

 Ohio to the other, besides making a side-trip for a few weeks into West Virginia. 

 He is unusually successful as a worker in the schools. Arthur H. Norton in 

 Maine, and William L. Finley in Oregon, have continued their labors along the 

 lines in which they have been so successful in years gone by. 



Recently Mrs. Mary S. Sage was employed as a lecturer in schools, with 

 the special object of encouraging the formation of Junior Audubon Classes. 

 The results already achieved by her we may regard as an earnest of what is to 

 be expected from this tactful, capable, and energetic worker. Edward H. 

 Forbush, one of the most useful conservationists on whom the sun ever shone, 

 continues to be connected with the Association as supervising Audubon agent 

 for New England. Details of the large amount of work carried on by these 

 various representatives will be found to be presented more fully in 

 their reports. 



STATE SOCIETIES AND BIRD CLUBS 



Many of the Audubon Societies throughout the country have shown much 

 activity the past year. In addition to cooperating with the National Associa- 

 tion in the Junior Class work, a number of exhibitions have been held, and some 

 of the workers have been very active in legislative matters, Indiana again 

 held one of her wonderful annual meetings which may well serve as a model 

 for all other states. Massachusetts, financially the strongest of all the state 

 societies, watched every turn of the long legislative session, and continued a 

 vigorous educational work as heretofore. The reorganized Michigan Audubon 

 Society has found a genius, as a successful worker, in its new president, Mrs. 

 Edith Munger. The most splendid achievement of any state society has been 

 the estabhshment and development of the Birdcraft Sanctuary at Fairfield, 

 Connecticut. This is the property of the Connecticut Audubon Society and has 

 been financed by a personal friend of the state president, Mrs. Mabel Osgood 

 Wright. If by any chance you have overlooked the account of what has been 

 done for the birds in Fairfield I would urge that you turn back to the July- 



