Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 517 



year, and has put them up in suitable places in our parks and boulevards. We 

 have reported many violations of the bird-laws to our local game-wardens 

 during the year, and they have always vigorously prosecuted offenders. 



In order to make possible the extension of the work of our Society, the mem- 

 bers decided to double the annual membership fee. We have about 136 col- 

 ored lantern-slides, showing our native birds. These are loaned to the lecturers 

 who visit our schools and various organizations. The weekly field-trips, which 

 have been an important feature for years, are held from September until 

 June. Much enthusiasm is always displayed by those who attend. The local 

 papers are showing a most gratifjdng interest in our work. Recently we 

 adopted resolutions and prepared a petition to the city council, requesting the 

 passage of an ordinance providing for the Ucensing of cats, and for the destruc- 

 tion, in a humane way, of all stray cats. We will also present to the council a 

 model cat-ordinance. Dr. Eugene Swope, Field Agent of the National Asso- 

 ciation for Ohio, continues his splendid activity in behalf of our birds with 

 undiminished success. — William G. Cramer, Secretary. 



Pennsylvania. — With the financial cooperation of the National Associa- 

 tion we were last year able to employ Henry Oldys for a lecture-tour of four 

 weeks beginning October 15, 1914. Mr. Oldys spoke in 28 towns, and spent a 

 week in Pittsburgh, where he deHvered about 30 lectures and addressed over 

 10,000 people, including the Training School for Teachers, two women's clubs, 

 two Audubon societies, and 1,000 students of the University of Pittsburgh. It 

 would be impossible in this brief report to give an account of all the places 

 where Mr. Oldys found interest and sometimes enthusiasm for bird-study and 

 bird-protection, but it may be said truly that in every place where a Junior 

 Class had been started previously the eagerness to follow up the work was 

 more than satisfactory. 



The interest that has been aroused in bird-study and bird-protection in the 

 few years that the Junior Class plan has been followed in Pennsylvania cannot 

 be too strongly emphasized; and had the Pennsylvania Society the means to 

 follow up this tour of Mr. Oldys with work by a field-secretary, several bird- 

 sanctuaries might, no doubt, be definitely secured, and other towns would 

 follow the example of the club in Erie and erect bird-fountains in suitable 

 places in the public parks, while the schools would consider Junior Audubon 

 Classes most desirable adjuncts to their natural-history teaching. Will not the 

 Pennsylvania readers of this report take these matters under consideration, 

 and confer with the State Audubon Society as to what can be done to take 

 advantage of the strong interest and good will that have been secured? — 

 Elizabeth W. Fisher, Secretary. 



Rhode Island. — The activities of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island 

 for the year have been largely educational. Cooperating with the National 



