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has arranged to employ the entire time of a salaried Secretary-Treasurer. 

 Legislative activity has been confined to the usual influence on legislation 

 afifecting bird-life. The Society now publishes independently, The New 

 Jersey Audubon Bulletin, issued bi-monthly, and illustrated with halftones. 

 Various press articles have also been issued and widely published by the news- 

 papers of the state. Junior Audubon Class work has been continued, in coop- 

 eration with the National Association, and 436 classes were organized. The 

 fourth annual meeting was held in Newark, on October 6, when the Trustees 

 were reelected, with the exception of Mr. W. W. Grant, resigned, who was 

 succeeded by Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads. The officers were reelected. At the 

 public session in the evening, William L. Finley, of Portland, Oregon, showed 

 a wonderfully fine series of wild-life motion-pictures, and spoke of protection 

 work in his state. — Beecher S. Bowdish, Secretary. 



North Dakota. — -The North Dakota Audubon Society has continued its 

 work with steady and substantial progress. Interest in the study of bird-life, 

 and in the protection of our birds, has been continuously developed, and the 

 most cordial relations and hearty cooperation exist between the society and 

 the State Board of Control of Game. The list of members has been increased. 

 The finances of the Society are in excellent condition. Much advancement 

 has also been made in the Junior work of the state. Many addresses have 

 been given by members of the Society during the past year, before meetings of 

 federated clubs, educational associations, and college students. It is planned 

 to hold the annual meeting in the near future at the Agricultural College, 

 when those in attendance will have an opportunity to inspect the series of 

 birds in the zoological collection. This collection of mounted birds is now one 

 of the most complete in the state, and enables persons to identify species with 

 whose appearance they have become familiar in the field, but of whose proper 

 names they are ignorant. 



Owing to the work of the Audubon Society more and more attention is 

 being given to bird-study in the schools, as the teachers are learning how much 

 interest may be awakened in the pupils through the study of the habits of 

 birds. The literature and the pictures issued by the National Association are 

 now available in this state, and are proving welcome and effective. The matter 

 of establishing bird-reservations in suitable places is receiving thought, and 

 will probably come up for consideration at the next meeting of the Legis- 

 lature. — W. B. Bell, President. 



Ohio. — We sustained a great loss during the past year in the death of our 

 President, John P. Cummins. For four years Mr. Cummins had dignified 

 the office of president, and under his leadership the work had progressed and 

 the membership increased fourfold. His was not the type of scientific mind 

 that dissects and demolishes, but the appreciative and enthusiastic type that 



