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of the National Association of Audubon Societies in the rooms of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, at 234 Berkeley Street, Boston, where it has a 

 large exhibition of bird-protective appliances, bird-houses, feeding-stations, 

 baths, etc., and a quantity of literature of the bird-protection movement, 

 including charts, calendars, and the Educational Leaflets of the National 

 Association. This exhibition is free to all ^dsitors and makes the Society the 

 headquarters of the steadily increasing interest in the protection movement 

 throughout New England. The Society, as usual, has taken an active part in 

 recent legislation, having successfully opposed bills inimical to bird-life in 

 the state legislature, and aided those in its favor. 



During the deep snows and cold of the past winter, acting with the National 

 Association, it placarded the state with requests that people feed the birds, 

 giving full directions how to do it. It also wrote to about 5,000 persons, and 

 to newspapers throughout the state, making the same request. The work was 

 very generally taken up, and without doubt thousands of useful birds were 

 saved from starvation. During the year the Society's traveling lectures and 

 traveling libraries have been in constant use all over the state; and the Secre- 

 tary lectured fifty times before various organizations, reaching audiences of 

 from fifty to a thousand persons. 



Cooperating with the National Association's work of establishing Junior 

 Classes, an appeal was made to every school-teacher in the state, and 359 

 classes, containing 8,463 Juniors, were added to the roll. 



A new Bird Calendar has been published — six large plates of bird in colors, 

 hand-printed on blocks in Japan — forming a series of singular beauty and value. 

 The Calendar, like the Society's three unique and beautiful Bird Charts, finds 

 eager purchasers in distant states as well as in Massachusetts. 



The annual meeting of the Society, held in March, packed Huntington 

 Hall to the doors, more than a thousand people being in attendance. In Jan- 

 uary, WiUiam Brewster, the distinguished Cambridge ornithologist, founder 

 of the Society, and its President since 1892, resigned because of pressure of 

 other duties, greatly to the regret of all. Edward Howe Forbush, State Orni- 

 thologist, known the world over for his books on the economic side of bird- 

 life, and by his work for bird-protection, was elected to the vacancy. The 

 Society is head-quarters for information, and instructs in the formation of 

 local bird-clubs, which are steadily increasing in number throughout the 

 state. — WiNTKROP Packard, Secretary-Treasurer. 



Michigan. — ^The Michigan Audubon Society held its annual meeting at 

 the Public Library, in Grand Rapids, September 8 and 9, 1914. It seemed 

 strange to assemble without the familiar presence of Jefferson Butler, until 

 lately our faithful worker and leader, who, from the inception of the organiza- 

 tion until his death, never failed to be present at its meetings and to take an 

 active part in all the proceedings. The Grand Rapids Society, gave the visit- 



