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during the winter three afternoons a week and all day Saturday. — (Mrs.) 

 M. Spalding, Secretary. 



District of Columbia. — Our eighteenth annual meeting was enlivened by 

 Charles Crawford Gorst's charming lecture on 'The Musical Genius of Birds.' 

 In April we had another most interesting lecture by our National Secretary, 

 T. Gilbert Pearson, his subject being, 'The Movement for Audubon Bird- 

 Protection.' Our bird-study classes were well attended, and much good and 

 earnest work was done during the past year. Our field-meetings were more 

 satisfactory than for many years. They were well attended and immensely 

 enjoyed, and I venture to say that we had one experience not indulged in by 

 any other society. One hardly thinks of this terrible war as affecting the 

 peaceful Audubon societies, but one of our walks led us through Fort Wash- 

 ington, where a gentleman in gold buttons and much gold braid suddenly 

 informed us that neither cameras nor foreigners were allowed within the 

 fortifications ! Fortunately we could assure him that no photographs had been 

 taken within the fort, and that the two foreigners of the party were harmless. 

 The experience gave us a shock, and made us realize that we were at least 

 slightly 'prepared.' The field-meetings have proved so popular that we 

 increased the number to six this year. We have also published several numbers 

 of our 'Current Items of Interest.' — Helen P. Childs, Secretary. 



East Tennessee Audubon Society. — We tried to get a bill through the 

 legislature prohibiting the hunting of Quails for a term of five years. It was 

 lost. We also opposed a bill offering a bounty on all Hawks. The Society had 

 one public lecture. The secretary has spoken before two large audiences, and 

 a flourishing Audubon Society was organized as the result. We have organized 

 several Junior Audubon Classes. Mrs. Walter Barton, our treasurer and a 

 deputy game-warden, attended the Farmers' Convention, and spread our 

 literature throughout the entire state. By her persuasive eloquence — a woman's 

 best weapon — she gained great influence over Young America; and stopped, 

 in many cases, the indiscriminate slaughter of birds. — Magnolia Wood- 

 ward, Secretary. 



Iowa. — During the present year our work has been directed principally to 

 cooperation with the National Association in the furtherance of Junior Classes. 

 We have distributed many of the leaflets over the state, and hope to make the 

 work quite general in the schools of Iowa. The teachers of the Waterloo schools 

 have responded splendidly, with a Junior membership of over eleven hundred, 

 and these boys and girls have shown great interest in bird-study and the 

 building of bird-houses. 



Besides the talks given in the local schools, the president has addressed 

 such gatherings as the Mothers' Story-Tellers' League, a Young People's 



