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were mailed to all newspapers in Colorado, with a request for publication. 

 Bird articles, written by R. Rockwell, W. W. Arnold, and E. R. Warren, 

 have been printed in various magazines and newspapers. Mrs. Hitzler has 

 given talks to five clubs, and introduced Junior Audubon work into the Clay- 

 ton School of Denver. Prof. Lloyd Shaw, of Colorado Springs, did much field- 

 work with his various classes. Miss Olive Jones, of Fort Collins, has given many 

 illustrated lectures, and Dr. Arnold, of Colorado Springs, has lectured on birds 

 in every school, as well as to the Boys' Club, the Young Men's Christian As- 

 sociation, and other institutions of his city. He illustrates his lectures with 

 cages of convalescent birds from his bird-hospital, and is always greeted with 

 enthusiasm. The secretary had some patients in her aviary, and as her 

 house is situated in the woods it became the place for liberation of many of Dr. 

 Arnold's patients. — Leona Robbins, Secretary. 



Connecticut." — This year has been marked by a steady and healthy 

 progress in many directions. The sustaining membership has been increased, 

 while the Junior Audubon membership, under the charge of Miss Frances A. 

 Hurd, of Norwalk, cooperating with the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, has passed the six-thousand mark. Seven meetings of the executive 

 committee have been held in the new room in Birdcraft Bungalow, with an 

 average attendance of eleven members. These meetings are not only for the 

 transaction of business, but have a helpful social side, members presenting for 

 discussion any phase of the work that may occur to them, and sub-committees 

 being then appointed for any special work needed. The circulation of the free 

 traveling libraries continues excellent, the only limit being the supply. Fifty 

 sets of the colored bird-plates from Eaton's 'Birds of New York' have been 

 obtained. Wilbur F. Smith and James C. Hall, of Norwalk, have in charge the 

 separating of these sets into three groups, arranged according to the season 

 when the birds pictured may be most easily recognized by Connecticut school- 

 children. The plates are to be mounted on cards and circulated with the 

 traveling libraries. 



Through the thought of one of our charter members, Mrs. Walter M. Smith, 

 of Stamford, the Society received a gift of $250 for special work to be indi- 

 cated by the president. As Mrs. Smith died within a few weeks after the gift, 

 the money was turned, as a memorial, into the more permanent educational 

 channels, namely: framing a set of 'The Birds of New York' plates for Bird- 

 craft Museum; binding the text belonging to the plates; binding a complete 

 set of Bird-Lore; and the preparation of two new traveling lectures for school 

 use. The great local work of the year has been focused about Bird-craft 

 Sanctuary (see Bird-Lore, Vol. XVH, pp. 263-73). This unique undertaking 

 will be an object-lesson in methods to the entire eastern coast, and the suc- 

 cess of the little museum has resulted in the doubling of the size of the 

 building, and the installing of a heating-system. It will be open to students 



