Report of the Secretary 487 



STATE SOCIETIES 



We would especially commend the reports of the various State Audubon 

 Societies throughout the Union, which will be found on subsequent pages of 

 this Report. The earnest, self-sacrificing labor of the officers and members 

 of many of these bodies deserves the highest praise, and the reports will be 

 found to contain much of interest and stimulus. One of the many advances 

 recently made in State Audubon Society work was in New Jersey, when last 

 January it was decided to employ the Secretary, Beecher S. Bowdish, for his 

 entire time. Mr. Bowdish thereupon left the office of the National Associa- 

 tion, where he had been for several years, and assumed the duties of the 

 enlarged New Jersey work. 



The Birdcraft Sanctuary of the Connecticut Audubon Society, established 

 the past year at Fairfield, is not only a splendid undertaking for the birds, but 

 is a most delicate and worthy compliment to the President of the Audubon 

 Society of that state, Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright. 



PUBLICATIONS 



During the year, the Association has published, first in Bird-Lore, and 

 later as separates, six Educational Leaflets, accompanied by colored plates of 

 the birds treated. These were Leaflets No. 71, Tufted Titmouse, by Florence 

 Merriam Bailey; No. 72, Wood Thrush, and No. 73, Whip-poor-will, by 

 T. Gilbert Pearson; No. 74, Roseate Spoonbill, by Dr. Frank M. Chapman; No. 

 75, Sora Rail, by Edward H. Forbush; and No. 76, Pintailed Duck, by 

 Herbert K. Job. 



We have also brought out Bulletin No. i, entitled Attracting Birds about 

 the Home. This is illustrated with forty-one half-tone pictures and line-draw- 

 ings. One edition of 10,000 has been printed. An illustrated book on Alaskan 

 Bird Life, for free distribution to the eight thousand school-children of Alaska, 

 has been completed, and will probably be ready for distribution by Decem- 

 ber I. The entire cost of this undertaking has been borne by one of our most 

 public-spirited members, whose name we are not permitted to give at this time. 



Within the year we have issued, for the various uses of the Association, 

 the following: Printed and mimeographed letters, 123,000; letterheads, 60,000; 

 record-blanks and labels, 99,000; four-paged announcements to teachers, 

 93,000; Bulletin No. i, 10,000; circulars and printed notices of various kinds, 

 251,000; outline drawings of birds, 1,619,000; colored pictures of birds, 

 2,078,000; and Educational Leaflets, 2,358,000. 



The volume of correspondence has continued to grow steadily. The office 

 is, today, a general clearing-house for all imaginable kinds of knowledge. We 

 are called upon to give detailed information on a wide variety of subjects, from 

 the best method of starting a bird-reservation, or the drafting of a state game- 



