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made considerable progress in the study of trees, flowers, ferns, mosses, and 

 minerals. The membership of the Club is now thirty-two. Meetings are 

 regularly held once a month throughout the year, and a definite program is 

 carried out. Mrs. W. G. Drake, of Newton, is the present president. The 

 success of the organization has proved an incentive to towns in a neighboring 

 county, and similar clubs have been formed, and with these a friendly inter- 

 change of ideas and methods is enjoyed. — (Mrs.) W. E. Willson, Secretary. 



Vermont Bird Club. — Our Club was organized January 25, 1902, by 

 the adoption of a constitution and the election of Prof. G. H. Perkins as presi- 

 dent. In 1914 the Bird Club and the Botanical Club united to form the Vermont 

 Botanical and Bird Club, as many members belong to both clubs. The sum- 

 mer meeting for field-work had also been held jointly. These meetings have 

 been held in different localities, although the winter meetings have been held more 

 frequently at the University in Burlington. Many valuable papers, migration 

 lists, local lists, observations of rare nests, of specimens new to the state, and 

 notes of unusual activities in one or another species, etc., have been given at 

 the meetings. The Club is a member of the National Association, and has 

 always been in sympathy with Audubon work. In the beginning we had 94 

 members, now the number is 250. An attractive bulletin is published annually 

 in which the principal papers are included. — G. H. Perkins, Secretary. 



Winchendon (Massachusetts) Woman's Club. — In our Club the work 

 along the line of bird-study has been done in the Nature Department, which 

 was established in 1906. One member, who has been chairman for a number of 

 years, and who is the local secretary of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 

 has secured 235 Junior members and 35 life members for the Audubon Society. 

 Nine bird-charts have been purchased and placed in different school-rooms. Two 

 traveling lectures have also been given before the schools, through the efforts of 

 this department of our Club. We have also had a case of mounted birds placed 

 in one of the school-rooms, and have supplied Audubon leaflets to the teachers. 

 One afternoon last year, the club had Winthrop Packard for their speaker, and 

 two or three years ago had Edward H. Forbush. We have also circulated 

 petitions, and written letters to senators and representatives in support of 

 laws for better bird-protection. — Lena F. Parker, President. 



Woman's Club of Seymour (Connecticut). — We are not a bird-study 

 club, although we are interested in the preservation of the birds and have a 

 membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies. We took an 

 active interest in the bill of Senator McLean, and in the tariff proviso, writing 

 to senators and influential people, for we are always willing to do our best to 

 help the National Association. — Allida L. Booth. 



